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title: But in order that our love may last for ever, you must give me for t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in order that our love may last for ever, you must give me for the ring three drops of blood from the little finger of your left hand.’ Who acts: love, you, our. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 96

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But in order that our love may last for ever, you must give me for the ring three drops of blood from the little finger of your left hand.’

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**Who acts:** love, you, our · **What happens:** last, give, love · **To what, where:** order, three drops, me, little finger

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, you, our), 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:pg640:5:96
# text = But in order that our love may last for ever, you must give me for the ring three drops of blood from the little finger of your left hand.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | may | our love |  |  | order |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | must | you | three drops of blood | me | the little finger of your left hand |  | for the ring | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drop=Theme for ring=Asset |
| 3 | **love** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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