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title: ‘If you really wish him to recover,’ said the Fairy, ‘you have only… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you really wish him to recover,’ said the Fairy, ‘you have only to catch the Trotting Mouse and the Chaffinch-on-the-Wing and bring them to me. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 3

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‘If you really wish him to recover,’ said the Fairy, ‘you have only to catch the Trotting Mouse and the Chaffinch-on-the-Wing and bring them to me.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wish, recover, say, have, catch, bring · **To what, where:** Vivien, Fairy, Trotting Mouse, Mouse, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:39:3
# text = ‘If you really wish him to recover,’ said the Fairy, ‘you have only to catch the Trotting Mouse and the Chaffinch-on-the-Wing and bring them to me.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Trotting	trotting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
26	Chaffinch	Chaffinch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  | Vivien |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the Trotting Mouse and the Wing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Mouse | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination |

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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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