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title: Now fear not to execute these instructions, because on the fulfilmen… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now fear not to execute these instructions, because on the fulfilment of them depends your fortune and happiness. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 92

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Now fear not to execute these instructions, because on the fulfilment of them depends your fortune and happiness.

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**What happens:** fear, not execute, depend, fulfil · **To what, where:** instructions, fortune, fulfilment

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:28:92
# text = Now fear not to execute these instructions, because on the fulfilment of them depends your fortune and happiness.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **execute** | to-infinitive |  | this instructions |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Patient |
| 3 | **depend** | present |  | your fortune and happiness |  | the fulfilment of instructions |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fulfil** |  |  | instructions *= instruction* |  |  |  |  | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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