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title: Ask your sisters to give you the heart of the dead goat, and bury it… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask your sisters to give you the heart of the dead goat, and bury it in the earth before the house-door; that will bring you good luck.’ Who acts: you, that. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 82

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Ask your sisters to give you the heart of the dead goat, and bury it in the earth before the house-door; that will bring you good luck.’

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** ask, give, bury, bring · **To what, where:** sisters, heart, you, earth, good luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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:pg7277:40:82
# text = Ask your sisters to give you the heart of the dead goat, and bury it in the earth before the house-door; that will bring you good luck.’
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	iobj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your sisters |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the heart of the dead goat | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient heart=Theme |
| 3 | **bury** | infinitive | you *not said here* | heart |  | the earth | before the house door |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in earth=Destination |
| 4 | **bring** | future | that | good luck | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=Theme |

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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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