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title: If you don’t obey my orders I shall be very angry, for this young ma… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you don’t obey my orders I shall be very angry, for this young man is a bad fellow who is sure to ruin us all if he lives.’ Who acts: you, I, bad fellow, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 56

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If you don’t obey my orders I shall be very angry, for this young man is a bad fellow who is sure to ruin us all if he lives.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, bad fellow, man, my · **What happens:** not obey, be, ruin, live, order · **To what, where:** orders, bad fellow, us

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. 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, bad fellow, man), 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:pg641:4:56
# text = If you don’t obey my orders I shall be very angry, for this young man is a bad fellow who is sure to ruin us all if he lives.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **obey** | present · do-support | you | my orders |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | I | my orders *not said here* |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a bad fellow |  |  |  | for this young man | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | a bad fellow |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **ruin** | to-infinitive | a bad fellow *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 6 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | man |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **order** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «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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