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title: ‘If you are always as kind and persevering and easily contented as y… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you are always as kind and persevering and easily contented as you are now you may hope to accomplish the most difficult tasks; go on your way and have no fear that you will be troubled any more for lack of gold, for that little piece which you modestly chose shall never grow less, use it as muc
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 46

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‘If you are always as kind and persevering and easily contented as you are now you may hope to accomplish the most difficult tasks; go on your way and have no fear that you will be troubled any more for lack of gold, for that little piece which you modestly chose shall never grow less, use it as much as you will.

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**Who acts:** you, little piece · **What happens:** be, persevere, content, accomplish, go, have · **To what, where:** difficult tasks, way, fear, you, little piece, gold

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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 (you, little piece), 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:pg7277:15:46
# text = ‘If you are always as kind and persevering and easily contented as you are now you may hope to accomplish the most difficult tasks; go on your way and have no fear that you will be troubled any more for lack of gold, for that little piece which you modestly chose shall never grow less, use it as much as you will.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	persevering	persevere	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
40	any	any	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obj	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	modestly	modestly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
55	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
58	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	_
62	as	as	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	obj	_	_
64	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
65	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | always, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **persevere** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **content** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | may · present | you |  |  |  | now | hope *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **accomplish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the difficult tasks |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | your way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 7 | **have** | present |  | no fear |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 8 | **trouble** | future · passive |  | you |  |  |  | for lack of gold | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 9 | **choose** | past | you | that little piece |  |  |  | modestly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **grow** | shall | that little piece |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **use** | infinitive |  | fear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **lack** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state 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:** «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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