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title: “Put my obedience and my patience to some test by which you can judg… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Put my obedience and my patience to some test by which you can judge of my unalterable love.” Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 40

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“Put my obedience and my patience to some test by which you can judge of my unalterable love.”

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** put, judge, obey, love · **To what, where:** obedience

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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:pg3282:32:40
# text = “Put my obedience and my patience to some test by which you can judge of my unalterable love.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	unalterable	unalterable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | my obedience and my patience |  |  |  | to some test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent obedience=Goal |
| 2 | **judge** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | of my unalterable love | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of love=Theme |
| 3 | **obey** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **love** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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