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title: I will go at once, but only on condition that you shall carry the mo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will go at once, but only on condition that you shall carry the money home yourself, so that I may not be put to shame before my friends.’ Who acts: I, condition. 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 186

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I will go at once, but only on condition that you shall carry the money home yourself, so that I may not be put to shame before my friends.’

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**Who acts:** I, condition · **What happens:** go, carry, not put, shame · **To what, where:** condition, money, I

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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 (I, condition), 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:pg641:13:186
# text = I will go at once, but only on condition that you shall carry the money home yourself, so that I may not be put to shame before my friends.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I |  |  | condition |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | shall | condition | the money |  |  |  | yourself *obl*; home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **put** | may · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shame** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before my friends |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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