---
title: Break off a twig, and plant it in your garden, and it will take root… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Break off a twig, and plant it in your garden, and it will take root, and grow into a magnificent tree." Who acts: you, it. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/95/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/) / 95

# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 95

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Break off a twig, and plant it in your garden, and it will take root, and grow into a magnificent tree."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, it · **What happens:** break off, plant, take, grow · **To what, where:** twig, garden, root, magnificent tree

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg128:42:95
# text = Break off a twig, and plant it in your garden, and it will take root, and grow into a magnificent tree."
1	Break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	plant	plant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
17	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break off** | imperative | you *not said here* | a twig |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twig=Patient |
| 2 | **plant** | infinitive | you *not said here* | twig |  | your garden |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | future | it | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a magnificent tree *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/94/)
- next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/96/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/)