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title: ‘Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our murder… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our murdered wives, you will have to throw us into the river just over the place of the horse fair.’ Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 101

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‘Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our murdered wives, you will have to throw us into the river just over the place of the horse fair.’

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** not want, avenge, murder, have, throw · **To what, where:** us, dead flocks, river

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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:pg3454:12:101
# text = ‘Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our murdered wives, you will have to throw us into the river just over the place of the horse fair.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you | us |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **avenge** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | our dead flocks and our murdered wives |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **murder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  | into the river *result*; over the place of the horse fair | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer we=Theme into river=Result |

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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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