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title: And now, as to your reward, you shall in truth take your sister home… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now, as to your reward, you shall in truth take your sister home with you, and your brothers I will restore to life; but idle and unfaithful as they are their lot is to wander for ever. Who acts: brothers, your. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dep
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 55

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And now, as to your reward, you shall in truth take your sister home with you, and your brothers I will restore to life; but idle and unfaithful as they are their lot is to wander for ever.

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**Who acts:** brothers, your · **What happens:** take, restore, be, reward · **To what, where:** sister, truth, life

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, your), 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:pg3027:31:55
# text = And now, as to your reward, you shall in truth take your sister home with you, and your brothers I will restore to life; but idle and unfaithful as they are their lot is to wander for ever.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall |  | your sister |  | truth |  | with you; home *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Value in truth=Location |
| 2 | **restore** | future | your brothers |  | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | wander *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **reward** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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