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title: Yet I shall go hence in peace, my children, if you will promise alwa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet I shall go hence in peace, my children, if you will promise always to love each other, and never to forsake your youngest brother. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 4

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Yet I shall go hence in peace, my children, if you will promise always to love each other, and never to forsake your youngest brother.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** go, promise, love, not forsake · **To what, where:** peace, each, youngest brother

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg640:25:4
# text = Yet I shall go hence in peace, my children, if you will promise always to love each other, and never to forsake your youngest brother.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	18	obj	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | I |  |  | peace and my children |  | hence *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **love** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **forsake** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your youngest brother |  |  |  |  | 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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