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title: But Uraschimataro stood firm and repeated, ‘Only this once will I le… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Uraschimataro stood firm and repeated, ‘Only this once will I leave you, and then will I return to your side for ever.’ Who acts: Uraschimataro, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 91

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But Uraschimataro stood firm and repeated, ‘Only this once will I leave you, and then will I return to your side for ever.’

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**Who acts:** Uraschimataro, I · **What happens:** stand, repeat, leave, return · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uraschimataro, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:3:91
# text = But Uraschimataro stood firm and repeated, ‘Only this once will I leave you, and then will I return to your side for ever.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Uraschimataro |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **repeat** | participle | Uraschimataro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** | future | I | this |  |  |  | once *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | future | I |  |  |  | then | to your side *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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