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title: If you have a child when I come back again, all will be well, and I… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you have a child when I come back again, all will be well, and I shall love you beyond all measure, and never more say an angry word to you. Who acts: you, I, all. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 72

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If you have a child when I come back again, all will be well, and I shall love you beyond all measure, and never more say an angry word to you.

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**Who acts:** you, I, all · **What happens:** have, come back, be, love, not say · **To what, where:** child, you, angry word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, all), 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:pg5615:6:72
# text = If you have a child when I come back again, all will be well, and I shall love you beyond all measure, and never more say an angry word to you.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **come back** | present | I |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | future | all |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | shall | I | you |  |  |  | beyond all measure | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | a angry word | you |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to you=Recipient |

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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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