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title: ‘If I am pleased with you, I’ll reward you; but if I am not, I’ll pu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If I am pleased with you, I’ll reward you; but if I am not, I’ll put you in a pan and fry you in the oven--that’s what I’ll do with you, my pretty dears! Who acts: I, that. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 25

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‘If I am pleased with you, I’ll reward you; but if I am not, I’ll put you in a pan and fry you in the oven--that’s what I’ll do with you, my pretty dears!

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** be, reward, put, do · **To what, where:** you, pan

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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:pg640:39:25
# text = ‘If I am pleased with you, I’ll reward you; but if I am not, I’ll put you in a pan and fry you in the oven--that’s what I’ll do with you, my pretty dears!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fry	fry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	appos	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	dears	dear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with you; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reward** | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **put** | future | I | you |  | a pan and fry |  | in the oven | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in pan=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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