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title: Promise me that every morning before the sun rises you will go to it… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Promise me that every morning before the sun rises you will go to it and clear away every stone that impedes its course, and every dead leaf or broken twig that sullies its clear waters. Who acts: you, sun, stone, dead leaf. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, wi
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 16

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Promise me that every morning before the sun rises you will go to it and clear away every stone that impedes its course, and every dead leaf or broken twig that sullies its clear waters.

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**Who acts:** you, sun, stone, dead leaf · **What happens:** promise, rise, go, clear away, impede, sully · **To what, where:** me, sun, stone, course, clear waters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun, stone, dead leaf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:671`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:9:16
# text = Promise me that every morning before the sun rises you will go to it and clear away every stone that impedes its course, and every dead leaf or broken twig that sullies its clear waters.
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	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	impedes	impede	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sullies	sully	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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* |  | me |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rise** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | future | you |  |  | sun | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **clear away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | every stone and every dead leaf or broken twig |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Source |
| 5 | **impede** | present | every stone and every dead leaf or broken twig | sun's course |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer course=Eventuality |
| 6 | **sully** | present | every dead leaf or broken twig | sun's clear waters |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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