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title: Keep your bride’s crowns safe, and whenever you want my help, open t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep your bride’s crowns safe, and whenever you want my help, open this snuff-box. Who acts: you, bride, my. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 49

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Keep your bride’s crowns safe, and whenever you want my help, open this snuff-box.

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**Who acts:** you, bride, my · **What happens:** keep, want, open, crown, help · **To what, where:** crowns, help, snuff box

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bride, 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:pg3454:11:49
# text = Keep your bride’s crowns safe, and whenever you want my help, open this snuff-box.
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
17	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | your bride's crowns |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | you | my help |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this snuff box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |
| 4 | **crown** |  | your bride |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **help** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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