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title: Take them and weave them into a web that is as smooth as a king's ro… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take them and weave them into a web that is as smooth as a king's robe, and see that it is spun by the time that the sun sets.' Who acts: you, web, sun. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 105

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Take them and weave them into a web that is as smooth as a king's robe, and see that it is spun by the time that the sun sets.'

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**Who acts:** you, web, sun · **What happens:** take, weave, be, see, spin, set · **To what, where:** yarns, web, robe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, web, sun), 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:pg3027:10:105
# text = Take them and weave them into a web that is as smooth as a king's robe, and see that it is spun by the time that the sun sets.'
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	weave	weave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | yarns *= yarn* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yarns *= yarn* |  | a web |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into web=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | a web |  |  |  |  | as a king's robe; smooth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **spin** | present · passive |  | robe |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **set** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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