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title: But take it and go to the nearest seaport, where you will find a shi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But take it and go to the nearest seaport, where you will find a ship sailing for the Low Countries, and when you become King you will bring me back my fifty crowns.’ Who acts: you, ship, King, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 108

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But take it and go to the nearest seaport, where you will find a ship sailing for the Low Countries, and when you become King you will bring me back my fifty crowns.’

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**Who acts:** you, ship, King, my · **What happens:** take, go, find, sail, become, bring back · **To what, where:** money, nearest seaport, ship, fifty crowns, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ship, King, my), 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:pg7277:22:108
# text = But take it and go to the nearest seaport, where you will find a ship sailing for the Low Countries, and when you become King you will bring me back my fifty crowns.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	seaport	seaport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Countries	Country	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	back	back	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	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* | money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the nearest seaport |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to seaport=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | future | you | a ship |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Topic |
| 4 | **sail** | gerund | a ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Low Countries | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bring back** | future | King | my fifty crowns | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination crown=Theme |
| 7 | **crown** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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 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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