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title: “But if I love you,” says she, “will you not fly away and leave me o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But if I love you,” says she, “will you not fly away and leave me one of these fine days?” Who acts: I, hush. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 18

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“But if I love you,” says she, “will you not fly away and leave me one of these fine days?”

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**Who acts:** I, hush · **What happens:** love, say, not fly away, leave · **To what, where:** you, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hush), 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:pg7439:35:18
# text = “But if I love you,” says she, “will you not fly away and leave me one of these fine days?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **fly away** *in a quote* | future | hush |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | hush *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme one=Attribute |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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