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title: Promise me this.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Promise me this.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 3

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Promise me this.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** promise · **To what, where:** this, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. 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:pg7277:42:3
# text = Promise me this.’
1	Promise	promise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | imperative | you *not said here* | this | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal this=Theme |

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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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