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title: That is that you shall first bring me back a bronze ring which some… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That is that you shall first bring me back a bronze ring which some clever magician has stolen from me. Who acts: That, clever magician. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 180

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That is that you shall first bring me back a bronze ring which some clever magician has stolen from me.

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**Who acts:** That, clever magician · **What happens:** be, steal · **To what, where:** me, bronze ring

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, clever magician), 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:pg503:2:180
# text = That is that you shall first bring me back a bronze ring which some clever magician has stolen from me.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall · present | That |  | me |  |  | bring, first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** | present · perfect | some clever magician | a bronze ring |  |  |  | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from i=Source |

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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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