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title: “You shall never, never, have my hen till you bring me back my siste… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You shall never, never, have my hen till you bring me back my sister who was carried off by a giant to his castle, which is a long way off.” Who acts: You, giant, castle. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 40

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“You shall never, never, have my hen till you bring me back my sister who was carried off by a giant to his castle, which is a long way off.”

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**Who acts:** You, giant, castle · **What happens:** not have, bring back, carry off, be · **To what, where:** hen, sister, castle, long way

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, giant, castle), 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:pg3282:23:40
# text = “You shall never, never, have my hen till you bring me back my sister who was carried off by a giant to his castle, which is a long way off.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
34	off	off	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | shall | You | my hen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient |
| 2 | **bring back** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | my sister | Sister |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sister=Theme |
| 3 | **carry off** *in a quote* | past · passive | a giant | my sister |  | giant's castle |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | giant's castle | a long way |  |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |

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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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