--- title: If you will faithfully promise me to till your fields and feed your… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If you will faithfully promise me to till your fields and feed your flocks, and will keep your word better than you did before, I will see that you never lack anything that is really for your good.’ Who acts: you, I, your. 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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 (you, I, your), 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:pg7277:9:66 # text = If you will faithfully promise me to till your fields and feed your flocks, and will keep your word better than you did before, I will see that you never lack anything that is really for your good.’ 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 faithfully faithfully ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 till till VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 flocks flock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 25 before before ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 lack lack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 34 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 obj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 really really ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | | me | | | faithfully *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **till** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your fields | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your flocks | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient | | 4 | **keep** | future | you *not said here* | your word | | | | good *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 5 | **do** | past | you | | | | | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see** | future | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **lack** | present | you | anything | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **word** | | your | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/67/) - ↑ back to [Sylvain and Jocosa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/)