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title: So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To la… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met. Who acts: labour. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 4

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So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

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**Who acts:** labour · **What happens:** get, meet · **To what, where:** Fairies

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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 (labour), 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:pg640:2:4
# text = So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	For	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	To	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
17	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | shall | labour at your Alphabet and that learning |  |  |  |  | to lands *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result |
| 2 | **meet** | may · passive |  | Fairies |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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