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title: But before I can resume my natural form, and take possession of the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But before I can resume my natural form, and take possession of the belongings of my forefathers, you must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.’ Who acts: I, you, my. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, with its dependency tree a
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 22

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But before I can resume my natural form, and take possession of the belongings of my forefathers, you must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, my · **What happens:** resume, take, go out, form, possess · **To what, where:** natural form, possession, world, service, belongings

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, 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:pg640:18:22
# text = But before I can resume my natural form, and take possession of the belongings of my forefathers, you must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	resume	resume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	belongings	belonging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resume** | can | I | my natural form |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | possession of the belongings of my forefathers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | must | you |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | present | you *not said here* | service |  |  |  | as a maidservant | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent service=Theme as maidservant=Attribute |
| 5 | **form** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | the belongings of my forefathers |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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