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title: ‘You must each take it in turn to own him for a night and a day, or… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You must each take it in turn to own him for a night and a day, or else you will all be fighting over the money.’ Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 45

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‘You must each take it in turn to own him for a night and a day, or else you will all be fighting over the money.’

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** take, own, fight · **To what, where:** price, turn, donkey

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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:pg5615:17:45
# text = ‘You must each take it in turn to own him for a night and a day, or else you will all be fighting over the money.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must | You | price |  | turn |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in turn=Location |
| 2 | **own** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | donkey |  |  | night |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | future · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | over the money; all, else *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over money=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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