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title: But in order to keep my riches, I was obliged to sacrifice a Christi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in order to keep my riches, I was obliged to sacrifice a Christian to the stones, and an evil fate threw you in my way.’ Who acts: evil fate. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 45

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But in order to keep my riches, I was obliged to sacrifice a Christian to the stones, and an evil fate threw you in my way.’

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**Who acts:** evil fate · **What happens:** keep, oblige, sacrifice, throw · **To what, where:** riches, I, Christian, stones, you, way

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil fate), 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:pg3454:26:45
# text = But in order to keep my riches, I was obliged to sacrifice a Christian to the stones, and an evil fate threw you in my way.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | my riches |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme |
| 2 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive |  | a Christian | the stones |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent christian=Theme to stone=Recipient |
| 4 | **throw** | past | a evil fate | you |  | my way |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme in way=Destination |

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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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