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title: ‘If you are really in earnest, let us go and feast for three days: t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you are really in earnest, let us go and feast for three days: that will at any rate give you three extra days of life.’ Who acts: you, us, earnest. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 100

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‘If you are really in earnest, let us go and feast for three days: that will at any rate give you three extra days of life.’

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**Who acts:** you, us, earnest · **What happens:** be, let, go, feast, give · **To what, where:** rate, us, you

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, earnest), 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:pg641:13:100
# text = ‘If you are really in earnest, let us go and feast for three days: that will at any rate give you three extra days of life.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | any rate |  | earn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feast** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | present | earnest |  | you |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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