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title: ‘If you have love and courage enough to undertake this journey, when… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you have love and courage enough to undertake this journey, whenever you come to a cross-road always look at this diamond before you settle which way you are going to take. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its depen
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 43

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‘If you have love and courage enough to undertake this journey, whenever you come to a cross-road always look at this diamond before you settle which way you are going to take.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, undertake, come, look, settle, go · **To what, where:** love, journey, diamond, way

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:30:43
# text = ‘If you have love and courage enough to undertake this journey, whenever you come to a cross-road always look at this diamond before you settle which way you are going to take.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cross-road	cross-road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	settle	settle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | love and courage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 2 | **undertake** | to-infinitive |  | this journey |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | present | you |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | present |  |  |  | this diamond |  | to a cross-road; always *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to cross-road=Theme |
| 5 | **settle** | present | you | which way |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme way=Location |
| 6 | **go** | present · progressive | you | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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