--- title: Continue to make the best of your farm, if you wish to get back to y… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Continue to make the best of your farm, if you wish to get back to your kingdom, and also take care of this little Princess for me, and teach her to be useful, that when I come I may find her cured of her faults. Who acts: you, I, Princess. 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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, I, Princess), 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:pg7277:38:16 # text = Continue to make the best of your farm, if you wish to get back to your kingdom, and also take care of this little Princess for me, and teach her to be useful, that when I come I may find her cured of her faults. 1 Continue continue VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 also also ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 teach teach VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 obj _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 acl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 faults fault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the best | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product | | 3 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **get back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | care | | | | of this little Princess; for me | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme of princess=Source for i=Beneficiary | | 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | Princess | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **come** | present | I | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **find** | may | I | that | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme her=Attribute | | 10 | **cure** | participle | | | | | | of Princess's faults | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer of fault=Theme | | 11 | **fault** | | Princess | | | | | | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/17/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/)