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title: ‘If I left him to you to bring up,’ said she, ‘you would be certain… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If I left him to you to bring up,’ said she, ‘you would be certain to make him as foolish as yourselves. Who acts: I, task, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 24

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‘If I left him to you to bring up,’ said she, ‘you would be certain to make him as foolish as yourselves.

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**Who acts:** I, task, you · **What happens:** leave, bring up, say, be, make · **To what, where:** Genesta, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, task, you), 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:pg7277:14:24
# text = ‘If I left him to you to bring up,’ said she, ‘you would be certain to make him as foolish as yourselves.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | Genesta | you |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | task |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | would | you |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Genesta |  |  |  | foolish *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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 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.

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