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title: The Editor cannot say ‘good-bye’ without advising them, as they purs… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Editor cannot say ‘good-bye’ without advising them, as they pursue their studies, to read The Rose and the Ring, by the late Mr. Thackeray, with pictures by the author. Who acts: Editor, pictures. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 41

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The Editor cannot say ‘good-bye’ without advising them, as they pursue their studies, to read The Rose and the Ring, by the late Mr. Thackeray, with pictures by the author.

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**Who acts:** Editor, pictures · **What happens:** not say, advise, pursue, read, study · **To what, where:** good bye, pictures, studies, Rose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Editor, pictures), 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:pg640:2:41
# text = The Editor cannot say ‘good-bye’ without advising them, as they pursue their studies, to read The Rose and the Ring, by the late Mr. Thackeray, with pictures by the author.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	advising	advise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pursue	pursue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:desc	_	_
33	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | can | the Editor | good bye |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | gerund | the Editor *not said here* | pictures *= picture* |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **pursue** | present | pictures *= picture* | pictures's studies |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Theme |
| 4 | **read** | to-infinitive | pictures *= picture* *not said here* | the Rose and the Ring |  |  |  | by the late Thackeray  Mr.; with pictures; by the author | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Topic |
| 5 | **study** |  | pictures *= picture* |  |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: poss=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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