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title: Make my hair grow as thick and as black as yours, or else your husba… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Make my hair grow as thick and as black as yours, or else your husbands shall never see daylight again.' Who acts: you, hair, husbands. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 130

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Make my hair grow as thick and as black as yours, or else your husbands shall never see daylight again.'

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**Who acts:** you, hair, husbands · **What happens:** make, grow, not see · **To what, where:** daylight

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hair, husbands), 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:pg3027:26:130
# text = Make my hair grow as thick and as black as yours, or else your husbands shall never see daylight again.'
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	xcomp	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	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 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | my hair |  |  |  |  | as thick | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | shall | your husbands | daylight |  |  | again | else *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus |

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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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