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title: I desire to take them both to Court, in order to make their fortunes.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I desire to take them both to Court, in order to make their fortunes.’ Who acts: I. 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 29

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I desire to take them both to Court, in order to make their fortunes.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** desire, take, make · **To what, where:** officers, Court, fortunes

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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 (I), 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:pg7277:19:29
# text = I desire to take them both to Court, in order to make their fortunes.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	appos	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
11	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	fixed	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	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 | **desire** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | officers *= officer* | Court |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to court=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | officers's fortunes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |

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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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