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title: 'Give me back the wife and the child you have stolen from me,' he sa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Give me back the wife and the child you have stolen from me,' he said, 'or you shall not live another second!' Who acts: child, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 11

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'Give me back the wife and the child you have stolen from me,' he said, 'or you shall not live another second!'

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**Who acts:** child, you · **What happens:** give back, steal, say, not live · **To what, where:** wife, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, you), 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:pg3027:29:11
# text = 'Give me back the wife and the child you have stolen from me,' he said, 'or you shall not live another second!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	back	back	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give back** | infinitive |  |  | the wife |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wife=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | present · perfect · passive |  | the child |  |  |  | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from i=Source |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **live** | shall | you |  |  |  | second |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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