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title: I shall take it as a proof of your gratitude to me if you neither fo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall take it as a proof of your gratitude to me if you neither forget nor delay this duty, and I promise that so long as the sun’s earliest rays find my favourite spring the clearest and sweetest in all my meadows, you two shall not be parted from one another.’ Who acts: I, you, earliest rays, su
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 17

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I shall take it as a proof of your gratitude to me if you neither forget nor delay this duty, and I promise that so long as the sun’s earliest rays find my favourite spring the clearest and sweetest in all my meadows, you two shall not be parted from one another.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, earliest rays, sun · **What happens:** take, forget, delay, promise, find, not part · **To what, where:** course, duty, you, gratitude

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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 (I, you, earliest rays, sun), 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:pg7277:9:17
# text = I shall take it as a proof of your gratitude to me if you neither forget nor delay this duty, and I promise that so long as the sun’s earliest rays find my favourite spring the clearest and sweetest in all my meadows, you two shall not be parted from one another.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	delay	delay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	clearest	clear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	nsubj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	ccomp	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
44	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
48	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	obl	_	_
55	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | I | course |  |  |  | as a proof of your gratitude to me | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as proof=Attribute |
| 2 | **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **delay** | present | you *not said here* | this duty |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent duty=Source |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | present | the sun's earliest rays |  |  |  | spring |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **part** | shall · passive |  | you |  |  |  | from one | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from one=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **proof** |  |  | your gratitude to me |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: 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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