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title: ‘Many things may happen to delay our journey, and I need not remind… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Many things may happen to delay our journey, and I need not remind you of our contract that the moment the sun sets I cease to be your servant. Who acts: Many things, I, moment, our. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 62

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‘Many things may happen to delay our journey, and I need not remind you of our contract that the moment the sun sets I cease to be your servant.

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**Who acts:** Many things, I, moment, our · **What happens:** happen, delay, not remind, set, cease, be · **To what, where:** journey, you, servant

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many things, I, moment, our), 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:pg641:33:62
# text = ‘Many things may happen to delay our journey, and I need not remind you of our contract that the moment the sun sets I cease to be your servant.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	contract	contract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cease	cease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | may | Many things |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **delay** | to-infinitive | Many things *not said here* | our journey |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent journey=Source |
| 3 | **not** **remind** *speech: other* | present | I |  | you |  |  | of our contract | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of contract=Topic |
| 4 | **set** | present | the moment |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cease** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **journey** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **contract** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom contract «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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