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title: The next wish shall be that every time you open your mouth a gold co… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next wish shall be that every time you open your mouth a gold coin shall fall out of it, and your voice shall be like the most beautiful music. Who acts: next wish, you, gold coin, voice. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree a
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 51

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The next wish shall be that every time you open your mouth a gold coin shall fall out of it, and your voice shall be like the most beautiful music.

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**Who acts:** next wish, you, gold coin, voice · **What happens:** be, open, fall · **To what, where:** time, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next wish, you, gold coin, voice), 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:pg5615:31:51
# text = The next wish shall be that every time you open your mouth a gold coin shall fall out of it, and your voice shall be like the most beautiful music.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | the next wish | that time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | present | you | your mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | shall | a gold coin |  |  | mouth |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out it=Location |
| 4 | **is** | shall | your voice |  |  |  |  | like the beautiful music | tree rules |

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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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