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title: Knowledge kills joy, therefore think well what you are doing, or som… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowledge kills joy, therefore think well what you are doing, or some day you will repent. Who acts: Knowledge, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 8

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Knowledge kills joy, therefore think well what you are doing, or some day you will repent.

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**Who acts:** Knowledge, you · **What happens:** kill, think, do, repent · **To what, where:** joy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knowledge, you), 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:pg641:34:8
# text = Knowledge kills joy, therefore think well what you are doing, or some day you will repent.
1	Knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Knowledge | joy |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | therefore, well *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **repent** | future | you |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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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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