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title: After which you must steer towards the land, and she will follow you… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After which you must steer towards the land, and she will follow you, for she won’t be able to resist the beautiful wares you have on board your ship.’ Who acts: you, buyer. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 62

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After which you must steer towards the land, and she will follow you, for she won’t be able to resist the beautiful wares you have on board your ship.’

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**Who acts:** you, buyer · **What happens:** steer, follow, not be, resist, have · **To what, where:** land, you, beautiful wares, ship

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, buyer), 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:pg7277:52:62
# text = After which you must steer towards the land, and she will follow you, for she won’t be able to resist the beautiful wares you have on board your ship.’
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	steer	steer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	board	board	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steer** | must | you |  |  | the land |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards land=Destination |
| 2 | **follow** | future | buyer | you |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | future | buyer |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **resist** | to-infinitive | buyer *not said here* | the beautiful wares |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | you | the beautiful wares *not said here* |  | your ship |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Patient |

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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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