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title: When she is in the lake, be sure you hide her clothes, which are of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she is in the lake, be sure you hide her clothes, which are of dazzling whiteness, and do not give them back to her unless she consents to follow you.’ Who acts: ‘, lake, you, clothes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 54

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When she is in the lake, be sure you hide her clothes, which are of dazzling whiteness, and do not give them back to her unless she consents to follow you.’

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**Who acts:** ‘, lake, you, clothes · **What happens:** be, hide, not give, consent, follow · **To what, where:** lake, clothes, you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, lake, you, clothes), 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:pg7277:21:54
# text = When she is in the lake, be sure you hide her clothes, which are of dazzling whiteness, and do not give them back to her unless she consents to follow you.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	dazzling	dazzling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	consents	consent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ‘ |  |  | the lake |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | the lake |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | present | you | ‘'s clothes and dazzling whiteness |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | ‘'s clothes and dazzling whiteness |  |  |  |  | of dazzling whiteness | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **give** | infinitive · do-support |  |  | clothes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **consent** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | ‘ |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **follow** | to-infinitive | ‘ *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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