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title: 'If I give you my crown I must have another still more beautiful; an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'If I give you my crown I must have another still more beautiful; and this time you shall bring me a crown of stars.' Who acts: I, crown, time, my. 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 2

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'If I give you my crown I must have another still more beautiful; and this time you shall bring me a crown of stars.'

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**Who acts:** I, crown, time, my · **What happens:** give, have, bring, crown · **To what, where:** you, another, crown, me, stars

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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 (I, crown, time, my), 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:pg3027:26:2
# text = 'If I give you my crown I must have another still more beautiful; and this time you shall bring me a crown of stars.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | must | my crown | another |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | shall | this time | a crown of stars | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination crown=Theme |
| 4 | **crown** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **crown** |  |  | stars |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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