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description: 'Promise that you will give me an honourable burial, and when my body is laid in the grave go in my boat across the fiord, and take whatever you find in my house which belongs to me. Who acts: Promise, you, house. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its depen
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 3

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'Promise that you will give me an honourable burial, and when my body is laid in the grave go in my boat across the fiord, and take whatever you find in my house which belongs to me.

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**Who acts:** Promise, you, house · **What happens:** give, lay, go, take, find, belong · **To what, where:** honourable burial, me, body, grave, boat, whatever

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Promise, you, house), 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:pg3027:37:3
# text = 'Promise that you will give me an honourable burial, and when my body is laid in the grave go in my boat across the fiord, and take whatever you find in my house which belongs to me.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	honourable	honourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	across	across	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fiord	fiord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
31	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | Promise | a honourable burial | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient burial=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present · passive |  | my body |  | the grave |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | Promise |  |  | my boat |  | across the fiord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across fiord=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Promise *not said here* | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | present | you |  |  | my house |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **belong** | present | my house |  | me |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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