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title: If he will give you his daughter freely, well and good; and if not,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If he will give you his daughter freely, well and good; and if not, I will ravage his kingdom and bring her away by force.’ Who acts: Quimus, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 67

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If he will give you his daughter freely, well and good; and if not, I will ravage his kingdom and bring her away by force.’

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**Who acts:** Quimus, I · **What happens:** give, ravage, bring away · **To what, where:** daughter, kingdom

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quimus, I), 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:pg3282:1:67
# text = If he will give you his daughter freely, well and good; and if not, I will ravage his kingdom and bring her away by force.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
8	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ravage	ravage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | Quimus |  | Quimus's daughter |  |  | freely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **ravage** | future | I | Quimus's kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 3 | **bring away** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | daughter |  |  | by force; away *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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