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title: And be sure that for every turn of the lock given by the sixteen sta… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And be sure that for every turn of the lock given by the sixteen stable lads you give one. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 102

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And be sure that for every turn of the lock given by the sixteen stable lads you give one.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** lock, one

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:5:102
# text = And be sure that for every turn of the lock given by the sixteen stable lads you give one.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the lock *not said here* |  |  |  | by the sixteen stable lads | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | present | you | one |  |  |  | for every turn of the lock | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme for turn=Asset |

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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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