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title: If you promise never to betray me I will give you a piece of advice… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you promise never to betray me I will give you a piece of advice which you will do well to follow.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, 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 3, sentence 34

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If you promise never to betray me I will give you a piece of advice which you will do well to follow.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not promise, betray, give, do, follow · **To what, where:** me, piece, you, advice

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. 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), 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:pg640:32:34
# text = If you promise never to betray me I will give you a piece of advice which you will do well to follow.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	betray	betray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **betray** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | future | I | a piece of advice | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | future | you | advice |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 5 | **follow** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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