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title: ‘As you have hitherto always behaved well in my service I will not s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘As you have hitherto always behaved well in my service I will not send you to prison; but leave your place instantly and never let me see your face again.’ Who acts: you, I, me, my. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 100

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‘As you have hitherto always behaved well in my service I will not send you to prison; but leave your place instantly and never let me see your face again.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, me, my · **What happens:** behave, not send, leave, not let, see, service · **To what, where:** service, you, prison, place, me, face

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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, me, my), 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:pg640:15:100
# text = ‘As you have hitherto always behaved well in my service I will not send you to prison; but leave your place instantly and never let me see your face again.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	behaved	behave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behave** | present · perfect | you |  |  | my service |  | always, hitherto, well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **send** | future | I | my service *not said here* | you | prison |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to prison=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive |  | your place |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* | your face |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 6 | **service** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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