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title: ‘Shoot not at us any more unless thou desirest more pain than even n… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Shoot not at us any more unless thou desirest more pain than even now thou hast, but give us thy daughter without more words.’ Who acts: thou. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 35

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‘Shoot not at us any more unless thou desirest more pain than even now thou hast, but give us thy daughter without more words.’

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** desire, have, give · **To what, where:** more pain, daughter, us

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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:pg3454:39:35
# text = ‘Shoot not at us any more unless thou desirest more pain than even now thou hast, but give us thy daughter without more words.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
6	any	any	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	desirest	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present | thou | more pain |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pain=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | thou |  |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy daughter | us |  |  | without more words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient daughter=Theme |

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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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