--- title: ‘We will not kill you if you will promise to fly to the town where t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘We will not kill you if you will promise to fly to the town where there are three wells of healing and to bring back water from them in your beak to make this dead man alive.’ Who acts: We, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you), 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:pg641:5:84 # text = ‘We will not kill you if you will promise to fly to the town where there are three wells of healing and to bring back water from them in your beak to make this dead man alive.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 wells well NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **kill** | future | We | you | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | to the town *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | | 4 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | water | | your beak | | from wells *= well* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from they=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | this dead man | | | | alive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/85/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)