--- title: ‘If you dance well and please them they will grant you a petition an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If you dance well and please them they will grant you a petition and you can then beg to be cured; but if you dance badly they will most likely do you some mischief out of spite.’ Who acts: you, dwarfs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dwarfs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:31:29 # text = ‘If you dance well and please them they will grant you a petition and you can then beg to be cured; but if you dance badly they will most likely do you some mischief out of spite.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 please please INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 32 advmod _ _ 32 likely likely ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 out out ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | present | you | | | | | well *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grant** | future | dwarfs *= dwarf* | a petition | you | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal petition=Theme | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | can | you | | | | then | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cure** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme» | | 5 | **dance** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | badly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **do** | future | dwarfs *= dwarf* | you | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/30/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/)