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title: My son eats all living things he sees, and if you are wise, you will… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My son eats all living things he sees, and if you are wise, you will go away without coming any further.’ Who acts: son, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 39

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My son eats all living things he sees, and if you are wise, you will go away without coming any further.’

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**Who acts:** son, you · **What happens:** eat, live, see, be, go away, come · **To what, where:** living things

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, 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:pg7277:20:39
# text = My son eats all living things he sees, and if you are wise, you will go away without coming any further.’
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	any	any	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	further	further	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | My son | living things |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | son | living things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go away** | future | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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