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title: Take this ring, which will make you the happiest and most powerful o… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take this ring, which will make you the happiest and most powerful of men, provided you never make a bad use of it. Who acts: you, ring. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 14

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Take this ring, which will make you the happiest and most powerful of men, provided you never make a bad use of it.

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**Who acts:** you, ring · **What happens:** take, make, provide, not make, use · **To what, where:** ring, you, bad use, use

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ring), 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:pg7277:19:14
# text = Take this ring, which will make you the happiest and most powerful of men, provided you never make a bad use of it.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	happiest	happy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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* | this ring |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | future | this ring | you |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 3 | **provide** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present | you | a bad use of use |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | use |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 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.

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