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title: Here are the rings you gave to my mother, and here is the cross, and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here are the rings you gave to my mother, and here is the cross, and these will prove if I am your son or not.’ Who acts: rings, you, these, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 101

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Here are the rings you gave to my mother, and here is the cross, and these will prove if I am your son or not.’

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**Who acts:** rings, you, these, I · **What happens:** be, give, prove · **To what, where:** rings, mother, son

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (rings, you, these, I), 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:pg3454:3:101
# text = Here are the rings you gave to my mother, and here is the cross, and these will prove if I am your son or not.’
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the rings |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | you | the rings *not said here* | my mother |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to mother=Recipient |
| 3 | **prove** | future | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | your son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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