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title: If it sparkles as brightly as ever go straight on, but if its lustre… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If it sparkles as brightly as ever go straight on, but if its lustre is dimmed choose another path.’ Who acts: way. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 44

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If it sparkles as brightly as ever go straight on, but if its lustre is dimmed choose another path.’

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**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** sparkle, go, dim, choose · **To what, where:** lustre, path

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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 (way), 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:pg640:30:44
# text = If it sparkles as brightly as ever go straight on, but if its lustre is dimmed choose another path.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sparkles	sparkle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	dimmed	dim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sparkle** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | way |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | imperative |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dim** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | way's lustre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** | infinitive |  | another path |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |

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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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