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title: However, let the elder come with me, and as for you, follow these tw… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, let the elder come with me, and as for you, follow these two guards, who will escort you to a place that I will point out to them.’ Who acts: you, elder, place. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 36

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However, let the elder come with me, and as for you, follow these two guards, who will escort you to a place that I will point out to them.’

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**Who acts:** you, elder, place · **What happens:** let, come, follow, escort, point out · **To what, where:** two guards, you, place, elder

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, elder, place), 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:pg7277:19:36
# text = However, let the elder come with me, and as for you, follow these two guards, who will escort you to a place that I will point out to them.’
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	elder	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	escort	escort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the elder |  |  |  |  | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | you | this two guards |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme |
| 4 | **escort** | future |  | you |  | a place |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to place=Destination |
| 5 | **point out** | future | a place |  | elder |  |  | out *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=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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