--- title: Do not drive it away, but take it to the castle and sell it to the d… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Do not drive it away, but take it to the castle and sell it to the duke, and they will give you ten dollars for it; only you must bring the strap you lead it with, back to the house.' Who acts: you, parents. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/) / 15 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 15 Do not drive it away, but take it to the castle and sell it to the duke, and they will give you ten dollars for it; only you must bring the strap you lead it with, back to the house.' **Who acts:** you, parents · **What happens:** not drive away, take, sell, give, bring, lead · **To what, where:** dog, castle, duke, ten dollars, you, strap This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:39:15 # text = Do not drive it away, but take it to the castle and sell it to the duke, and they will give you ten dollars for it; only you must bring the strap you lead it with, back to the house.' 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 drive drive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sell sell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 duke duke NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 strap strap NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **drive away** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | dog | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | dog | | the castle | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to castle=Destination | | 3 | **sell** | infinitive | you *not said here* | dog | the duke | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to duke=Recipient | | 4 | **give** | future | parents *= parent* | ten dollars | you | | | for dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dollar=Theme for it=Asset | | 5 | **bring** | must | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lead** | present | you | the strap | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/16/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/)