--- title: But if you will not take my advice, then truly I can show you the se… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But if you will not take my advice, then truly I can show you the secrets of the night. Who acts: you, I. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/) / 9 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 9 But if you will not take my advice, then truly I can show you the secrets of the night. **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not take, show · **To what, where:** advice, secrets, you 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 (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:34:9 # text = But if you will not take my advice, then truly I can show you the secrets of the night. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 truly truly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | my advice | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 2 | **show** | can | I | the secrets of the night | you | | | truly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient secret=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/10/) - ↑ back to [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/)