--- title: So good-bye, and when you have read a fairy book, lend it to other c… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So good-bye, and when you have read a fairy book, lend it to other children who have none, or tell them the stories in your own way, which is a very pleasant mode of passing the time. Who acts: you, other children, own way, pleasant mode. 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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 (you, other children, own way, pleasant mode), 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:pg7277:1:32 # text = So good-bye, and when you have read a fairy book, lend it to other children who have none, or tell them the stories in your own way, which is a very pleasant mode of passing the time. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 bye bye INTJ UH _ 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 15 lend lend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 mode mode NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 40 of of SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present · perfect | you | a fairy book | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | | 2 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | Book | other children | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Recipient | | 3 | **have** | present | other children | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the stories | children *= child* | your own way | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | your own way | a pleasant mode | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** | gerund | a pleasant mode *not said here* | | | | time | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/33/) - ↑ back to [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/)