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title: But first you must follow me boldly into my Father’s Kingdom, undern… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But first you must follow me boldly into my Father’s Kingdom, underneath the earth; and when we get there, remember this--he will offer you gold and silver, and dazzling gems, but do not touch them. Who acts: you, we, Kingdom. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, wit
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 56

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But first you must follow me boldly into my Father’s Kingdom, underneath the earth; and when we get there, remember this--he will offer you gold and silver, and dazzling gems, but do not touch them.

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**Who acts:** you, we, Kingdom · **What happens:** follow, get, remember, offer, dazzle, not touch · **To what, where:** me, earth, this, gold, you

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, Kingdom), 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:pg640:33:56
# text = But first you must follow me boldly into my Father’s Kingdom, underneath the earth; and when we get there, remember this--he will offer you gold and silver, and dazzling gems, but do not touch them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | must | you | me |  | the earth |  | boldly, first *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme underneath earth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get** | present | we |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  | dazzling gems *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** | future | Kingdom | gold and silver | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal gold=Theme |
| 5 | **dazzle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | gold |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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