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title: Order me to build a smithy and I will make you a cross-bow, but from… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Order me to build a smithy and I will make you a cross-bow, but from which neither the eagle in the sky nor the wild beast in the forest is safe. Who acts: you, I, eagle. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 103

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Order me to build a smithy and I will make you a cross-bow, but from which neither the eagle in the sky nor the wild beast in the forest is safe.

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**Who acts:** you, I, eagle · **What happens:** order, build, make, be · **To what, where:** me, smithy, you

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. 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, eagle), 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:pg2435:4:103
# text = Order me to build a smithy and I will make you a cross-bow, but from which neither the eagle in the sky nor the wild beast in the forest is safe.
1	Order	order	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cross-bow	cross-bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc:preconj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a smithy |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smithy=Product |
| 3 | **make** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | the eagle in the sky nor the wild beast in the forest |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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 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.

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