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title: “Execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my po… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved.” Who acts: you, queen, your. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 103

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“Execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved.”

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**Who acts:** you, queen, your · **What happens:** execute, go, see, love, order · **To what, where:** orders, children, poor children

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, queen, 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:pg503:10:103
# text = “Execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Execute	execute	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
27	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **execute** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your orders |  |  |  | my poor children *obl* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | queen |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | queen *not said here* | my children |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** *in a quote* | participle | queen | my poor children |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 5 | **order** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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