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title: ‘Mortal, if thou art curious to know thy fate, strike this bell, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Mortal, if thou art curious to know thy fate, strike this bell, and submit to what shall befall thee.’ Who acts: thy. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 70

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‘Mortal, if thou art curious to know thy fate, strike this bell, and submit to what shall befall thee.’

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**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** know, strike, submit, befall, fate · **To what, where:** fate, bell, thee

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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 (thy), 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:pg7277:36:70
# text = ‘Mortal, if thou art curious to know thy fate, strike this bell, and submit to what shall befall thee.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	submit	submit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | thy fate |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
| 2 | **strike** | infinitive |  | this bell |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |
| 3 | **submit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **befall** | shall |  | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fate** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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