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title: ‘Either let one of you take me for a wife, or give me your consent t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Either let one of you take me for a wife, or give me your consent to take a new lord for myself, that my lands be not without a master.’ Who acts: you, lands, your. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 26

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‘Either let one of you take me for a wife, or give me your consent to take a new lord for myself, that my lands be not without a master.’

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**Who acts:** you, lands, your · **What happens:** let, take, give, not be, consent · **To what, where:** one, me, consent, new lord

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lands, your), 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:pg3454:31:26
# text = ‘Either let one of you take me for a wife, or give me your consent to take a new lord for myself, that my lands be not without a master.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc:preconj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | you | me |  |  |  | for a wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your consent | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient consent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a new lord |  |  |  | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lord=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **is** | infinitive | my lands |  |  |  |  | without a master | tree rules |
| 6 | **consent** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication 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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