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title: If we only stick to it you’ll see the mule will soon be ours.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If we only stick to it you’ll see the mule will soon be ours.’ Who acts: we, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 9

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If we only stick to it you’ll see the mule will soon be ours.’

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**Who acts:** we, you · **What happens:** stick, see, be · **To what, where:** way, mule, ours

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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:pg7277:26:9
# text = If we only stick to it you’ll see the mule will soon be ours.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  | way |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | the mule |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mule=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | future | you *not said here* | ours |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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