--- title: Take back your ring, and as ill fortune seems to follow all on whom… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Take back your ring, and as ill fortune seems to follow all on whom you bestow it, I will implore you, as a favour to myself, that you will never give it to anyone who is dear to me.’ Who acts: you, ill fortune, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ill fortune, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:19:128 # text = Take back your ring, and as ill fortune seems to follow all on whom you bestow it, I will implore you, as a favour to myself, that you will never give it to anyone who is dear to me.’ 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obj _ _ 14 on on SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bestow bestow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 implore implore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 obl _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take back** | imperative | you *not said here* | your ring | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | present | ill fortune | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | all | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | | 4 | **bestow** | present | you | ring | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **implore** | future | I | | you | | | as a favour to myself | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **give** | future | you | ring | anyone | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to anyone=Recipient | | 7 | **is** | present | | | me | | | dear *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/127/) - next →: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/129/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/)