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title: If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you ma… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must goon a fine day. Who acts: you, Nether, grown people. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 29

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If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must goon a fine day.

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**Who acts:** you, Nether, grown people · **What happens:** be, go, hear, grow up, do, goon · **To what, where:** Nether, Fairy Hill, music

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Nether, grown people), 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:pg640:2:29
# text = If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must goon a fine day.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Nether	Nether	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Lochaber	Lochaber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	goon	goon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  | Nether | ever |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Nether |  |  | the Fairy Hill |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hear** | may | you | the music |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present · perfect | grown people |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **goon** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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