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title: ‘Alas! dear Prince, do not rob me of my silver and my gold.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Alas! dear Prince, do not rob me of my silver and my gold.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 123

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‘Alas! dear Prince, do not rob me of my silver and my gold.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not rob · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg540:14:123
# text = ‘Alas! dear Prince, do not rob me of my silver and my gold.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	rob	rob	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rob** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | of my silver and my gold | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of silver=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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