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title: ‘Mannikin, you have done very well so far; continue to please me and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Mannikin, you have done very well so far; continue to please me and you shall always find good friends when you need them most. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 58

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‘Mannikin, you have done very well so far; continue to please me and you shall always find good friends when you need them most.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, continue, please, find, need · **To what, where:** Mannikin, me, good friends, Fairies

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:16:58
# text = ‘Mannikin, you have done very well so far; continue to please me and you shall always find good friends when you need them most.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	continue	continue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect · passive |  | Mannikin |  |  |  | far, well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **continue** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **please** | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | shall | you | good friends |  |  |  | always *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
| 5 | **need** | present | you | Fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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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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