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title: ‘If you will only have patience I am just going out into the garden… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you will only have patience I am just going out into the garden to gather some peas: we will shell them at our leisure, then I will light a fire and cook them, and when they are thoroughly done, we can enjoy them peaceably; there is no hurry.’ Who acts: you, I, we, hurry. A sentence of «The Gree
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 39

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‘If you will only have patience I am just going out into the garden to gather some peas: we will shell them at our leisure, then I will light a fire and cook them, and when they are thoroughly done, we can enjoy them peaceably; there is no hurry.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, we, hurry · **What happens:** have, go out, gather, shell, light, cook · **To what, where:** patience, garden, peas, leisure, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (you, I, we, hurry), 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:pg7277:36:39
# text = ‘If you will only have patience I am just going out into the garden to gather some peas: we will shell them at our leisure, then I will light a fire and cook them, and when they are thoroughly done, we can enjoy them peaceably; there is no hurry.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	ccomp	_	_
7	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	peaceably	peaceably	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
52	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	53	expl	_	_
53	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
54	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	55	det	_	_
55	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | patience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |
| 2 | **go out** | present · progressive | I | patience *not said here* |  | the garden |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some peas |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme |
| 4 | **shell** | future | we | peas *= pea* |  | our leisure |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **light** | future | I | a fire |  |  | then |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 6 | **cook** | infinitive | I *not said here* | peas *= pea* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | present · passive |  | peas *= pea* |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 8 | **enjoy** | can | we | peas *= pea* |  |  |  | peaceably *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 9 | **be** | present | no hurry |  |  | there |  |  | 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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