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title: But you would have to say good-bye to all your own people and come a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But you would have to say good-bye to all your own people and come and be my constant companion in this ruined castle. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 6

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But you would have to say good-bye to all your own people and come and be my constant companion in this ruined castle.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, say, come, be, ruin · **To what, where:** good bye, own people, ruined castle, constant companion · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:18:6
# text = But you would have to say good-bye to all your own people and come and be my constant companion in this ruined castle.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | good bye | your own people |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to people=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | this ruined castle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my constant companion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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