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title: At the gate my messenger awaits you, and you shall take again your b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the gate my messenger awaits you, and you shall take again your body which you left behind, and he will show you what you are to do. Who acts: messenger, you, body. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 40

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At the gate my messenger awaits you, and you shall take again your body which you left behind, and he will show you what you are to do.

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**Who acts:** messenger, you, body · **What happens:** await, take, leave behind, show, be · **To what, where:** you, gate, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, you, body), 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:pg640:28:40
# text = At the gate my messenger awaits you, and you shall take again your body which you left behind, and he will show you what you are to do.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	awaits	await	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **await** | present | my messenger | you |  | the gate |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | shall | you | your body |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 3 | **leave behind** | past | your body |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | future | messenger |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | do *property* | 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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