--- title: A wise child will, therefore, remember that, if he grows up and beco… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: A wise child will, therefore, remember that, if he grows up and becomes a member of the Folk Lore Society, ALL the tales in this book were not offered to him as absolutely truthful, but were printed merely for his entertainment. Who acts: wise child, Joan. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by An --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [Joan, Toddles, and Tiny](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/) / 36 # The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 36 A wise child will, therefore, remember that, if he grows up and becomes a member of the Folk Lore Society, ALL the tales in this book were not offered to him as absolutely truthful, but were printed merely for his entertainment. **Who acts:** wise child, Joan · **What happens:** remember, grow up, become, not offer, print, entertain · **To what, where:** member, tales, Joan 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 (wise child, Joan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:2:36 # text = A wise child will, therefore, remember that, if he grows up and becomes a member of the Folk Lore Society, ALL the tales in this book were not offered to him as absolutely truthful, but were printed merely for his entertainment. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 Folk Folk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 Lore Lore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Society Society PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 ALL all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 absolutely absolutely ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 truthful truthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 43 merely merely ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 entertainment entertainment NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | future | a wise child | | | | | therefore *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Joan | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | Joan *not said here* | a member of the Folk Lore Society | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **offer** | past · passive | | all tales in this book | Joan | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal | | 5 | **print** | past · passive | | | | | | for Joan's entertainment; merely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **entertain** | | Joan | | | | | | nom entertainment «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/37/) - ↑ back to [Joan, Toddles, and Tiny](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/)