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title: Take them both away,' he continued, turning to his guards, 'and lodg… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take them both away,' he continued, turning to his guards, 'and lodge them in the state prison. Who acts: you, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 75

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Take them both away,' he continued, turning to his guards, 'and lodge them in the state prison.

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**Who acts:** you, king · **What happens:** take, continue, turn, lodge · **To what, where:** eyes, guards, state prison

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:23:75
# text = Take them both away,' he continued, turning to his guards, 'and lodge them in the state prison.
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	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lodge	lodge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  | king's guards |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to guard=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lodge** | infinitive | you *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  | the state prison |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in prison=Location |

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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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