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title: 'Not one clod of earth shall ever be yours if this day you do not ta… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Not one clod of earth shall ever be yours if this day you do not take on yourself the vows that were taken by the king your father.' Who acts: one clod, you, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 58

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'Not one clod of earth shall ever be yours if this day you do not take on yourself the vows that were taken by the king your father.'

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**Who acts:** one clod, you, king · **What happens:** be, not take on, take · **To what, where:** yours, yourself, vows

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one clod, you, king), 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:pg3027:15:58
# text = 'Not one clod of earth shall ever be yours if this day you do not take on yourself the vows that were taken by the king your father.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	clod	clod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | shall | one clod of earth | yours |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **take on** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | yourself |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past · passive | the king | the vows |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Theme father=Destination |

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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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