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title: ‘Bark, and run upon four feet, until the time comes when virtue shal… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Bark, and run upon four feet, until the time comes when virtue shall be rewarded by love and fortune.’ Who acts: Bark, time, love. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 20

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‘Bark, and run upon four feet, until the time comes when virtue shall be rewarded by love and fortune.’

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**Who acts:** Bark, time, love · **What happens:** run, come, reward · **To what, where:** four feet, virtue

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bark, time, love), 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:pg7277:15:20
# text = ‘Bark, and run upon four feet, until the time comes when virtue shall be rewarded by love and fortune.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Bark *not said here* |  |  | four feet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | present | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reward** | shall · passive | love and fortune | virtue |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |

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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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