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title: If you will only promise to try and free me I will stand by you, and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will only promise to try and free me I will stand by you, and will accomplish for you all the tasks which my mother sets you.’ Who acts: you, I, mother. 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 c
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 65

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If you will only promise to try and free me I will stand by you, and will accomplish for you all the tasks which my mother sets you.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, mother · **What happens:** promise, try, stand, accomplish, set · **To what, where:** tasks

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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 (you, I, mother), 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:pg640:25:65
# text = If you will only promise to try and free me I will stand by you, and will accomplish for you all the tasks which my mother sets you.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stand** | future | I |  |  |  |  | by you | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by you=Location |
| 4 | **accomplish** | future | I *not said here* | all tasks |  |  |  | for you | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | present | my mother | all tasks |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme you=Destination |

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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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