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title: Think how great must be my devotion, when, in spite of my fate, I st… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Think how great must be my devotion, when, in spite of my fate, I still love on!’ Who acts: you, I, my. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 79

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Think how great must be my devotion, when, in spite of my fate, I still love on!’

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**Who acts:** you, I, my · **What happens:** think, be, love on, spite, fate · **To what, where:** great devotion, fate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (you, I, 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:pg640:16:79
# text = Think how great must be my devotion, when, in spite of my fate, I still love on!’
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | must |  | my great devotion and spite of my fate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **love on** | present | I |  |  |  | still |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | my fate |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **fate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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