--- title: If you can, I will give you a robe of honour; but if you fail, I wil… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If you can, I will give you a robe of honour; but if you fail, I will order you to receive twelve strokes on your cheeks, and five-and-twenty on the soles of your feet, because you have been falsely called Selim the learned.’ Who acts: I, you. 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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 (I, you), 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:pg7277:7:24 # text = If you can, I will give you a robe of honour; but if you fail, I will order you to receive twelve strokes on your cheeks, and five-and-twenty on the soles of your feet, because you have been falsely called Selim the learned.’ 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 order order VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 strokes stroke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 32 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 conj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 soles sole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 because because SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 47 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 49 aux:pass _ _ 48 falsely falsely ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 50 Selim Selim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 xcomp _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | can · future | I | a robe of honour | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient robe=Theme | | 2 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **order** | future | I | | you | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **receive** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | twelve strokes | | your cheeks | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme on cheek=Location | | 5 | **call** | present · perfect · passive | | five | | | | falsely *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **learn** | participle | | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/25/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/)