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title: ‘Now this is what you have to do: dress yourself like a Breton seeki… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now this is what you have to do: dress yourself like a Breton seeking a place as stable-boy, and go and offer your services to your father. Who acts: this, you, Breton, your. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 74

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‘Now this is what you have to do: dress yourself like a Breton seeking a place as stable-boy, and go and offer your services to your father.

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**Who acts:** this, you, Breton, your · **What happens:** be, have, do, dress, seek, go · **To what, where:** yourself, place, services, father

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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 (this, you, Breton, your), 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:pg7277:21:74
# text = ‘Now this is what you have to do: dress yourself like a Breton seeking a place as stable-boy, and go and offer your services to your father.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj:outer	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Breton	Breton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dress** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 5 | **seek** | gerund | a Breton | a place |  |  |  | as stable boy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **offer** | infinitive |  | your services | your father |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent service=Theme to father=Goal |
| 8 | **service** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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