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title: ‘Take the copper wreath, and go with it to that little hill over the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Take the copper wreath, and go with it to that little hill over there. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 17

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‘Take the copper wreath, and go with it to that little hill over there.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, go · **To what, where:** copper wreath, little hill

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. 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:pg641:21:17
# text = ‘Take the copper wreath, and go with it to that little hill over there.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the copper wreath |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | that little hill; there |  | with wreath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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