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title: Try to give us our Queen again, for if you do you will be rewarded;… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Try to give us our Queen again, for if you do you will be rewarded; if not, it will be the worse for you.’ Who acts: you, page. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 40

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Try to give us our Queen again, for if you do you will be rewarded; if not, it will be the worse for you.’

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**Who acts:** you, page · **What happens:** try, give, reward, be · **To what, where:** Queen, you

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, page), 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:pg540:34:40
# text = Try to give us our Queen again, for if you do you will be rewarded; if not, it will be the worse for you.’
1	Try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | our Queen |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient queen=Theme |
| 3 | **reward** | present · passive · do-support |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | future | page |  |  |  |  | for you; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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