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title: If you wish to reward us then grant that our land may be free of tax… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you wish to reward us then grant that our land may be free of taxes, and of your goodness pardon the seventh Simon. Who acts: you, land, your. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 147

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If you wish to reward us then grant that our land may be free of taxes, and of your goodness pardon the seventh Simon.

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**Who acts:** you, land, your · **What happens:** wish, reward, grant, be, pardon · **To what, where:** seventh Simon, us

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, land, your), 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:pg2435:5:147
# text = If you wish to reward us then grant that our land may be free of taxes, and of your goodness pardon the seventh Simon.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	grant	grant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | you | the seventh Simon |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **reward** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 3 | **grant** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | may | our land |  |  |  |  | of taxes; free *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pardon** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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