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title: If I would only yield to his wishes he could easily open these vesse… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If I would only yield to his wishes he could easily open these vessels, and all would then resume their former shapes. Who acts: I, Magician, all. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 74

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If I would only yield to his wishes he could easily open these vessels, and all would then resume their former shapes.

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**Who acts:** I, Magician, all · **What happens:** yield, open, resume, wish · **To what, where:** vessels, former shapes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Magician, all), 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:pg7277:45:74
# text = If I would only yield to his wishes he could easily open these vessels, and all would then resume their former shapes.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	resume	resume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yield** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | I |  |  |  |  | to Magician's wishes | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | could | Magician | this vessels |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vessel=Theme |
| 3 | **resume** | would | all | vessels's former shapes |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wish** |  | Magician |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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