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title: When you go on from the Place of Gifts, be sure you do not take the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you go on from the Place of Gifts, be sure you do not take the right-hand road; take the left, for the other leads by the negro castle, which is known as the Place of Clashing Swords, and where there are forty negro captains each over three thousand or four thousand more. Who acts: you, Place, 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 112

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When you go on from the Place of Gifts, be sure you do not take the right-hand road; take the left, for the other leads by the negro castle, which is known as the Place of Clashing Swords, and where there are forty negro captains each over three thousand or four thousand more.

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**Who acts:** you, Place, forty negro captains · **What happens:** go on, be, not take, take, know, clash · **To what, where:** Place, hand road, left, negro castle, Swords

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Place, forty negro captains), 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:pg3282:3:112
# text = When you go on from the Place of Gifts, be sure you do not take the right-hand road; take the left, for the other leads by the negro castle, which is known as the Place of Clashing Swords, and where there are forty negro captains each over three thousand or four thousand more.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	leads	lead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	Clashing	clash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
44	Swords	Sword	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	advmod	_	_
48	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	49	expl	_	_
49	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
50	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
51	negro	negro	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
53	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	det	_	_
54	over	over	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	compound	_	_
56	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	appos	_	_
57	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	conj	_	_
59	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	60	nummod	_	_
60	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | present | you |  |  | the Place of Gifts |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **take** | present · do-support | you | the hand road |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the left |  |  |  | for the other leads; by the negro castle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent left=Theme for lead=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **know** | present · passive |  | the negro castle |  |  |  | as the Place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as place=Attribute |
| 6 | **clash** | gerund | the Place *not said here* | Swords |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme |
| 7 | **does** | present | forty negro captains |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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 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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