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title: I must go off and leave you, but take this ring and wear it as a rem… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I must go off and leave you, but take this ring and wear it as a remembrance of me, and when I am King I will return and fetch you home.’ Who acts: I, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 4

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I must go off and leave you, but take this ring and wear it as a remembrance of me, and when I am King I will return and fetch you home.’

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**Who acts:** I, King · **What happens:** go off, leave, take, wear, be, return · **To what, where:** you, ring, King, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King), 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:pg7277:43:4
# text = I must go off and leave you, but take this ring and wear it as a remembrance of me, and when I am King I will return and fetch you home.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wear	wear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | this ring |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | infinitive |  | ring |  |  |  | as a remembrance of me | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | I | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **return** | future | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fetch** | infinitive | King *not said here* | you |  |  |  | home *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 8 | **remember** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition 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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