--- title: Whoever drinks the wine I hold Can wield the sword that hangs above;… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Whoever drinks the wine I hold Can wield the sword that hangs above; Then let him use it for the right, And win a royal maiden’s love. Who acts: Whoever, I, sword, Niels. 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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 (Whoever, I, sword, Niels), 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:pg2435:30:42 # text = Whoever drinks the wine I hold Can wield the sword that hangs above; Then let him use it for the right, And win a royal maiden’s love. 1 Whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 wield wield VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 above above ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 And and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | Whoever | the wine | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | | 2 | **hold** | present | I | the wine *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wield** | can | I *not said here* | the sword | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 4 | **hang** | present | the sword | | | | | above *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | Niels | | | then | | tree rules | | 6 | **use** | infinitive | Niels *not said here* | sword | | | | for the right | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for right=Eventuality | | 7 | **win** | infinitive | | a royal maiden's love | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | | 8 | **love** | | a royal maiden | | | | | | nom love «feeling 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/30/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/30/43/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/30/)