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title: Give two bits to your wife to eat, two to your horse, and plant the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Give two bits to your wife to eat, two to your horse, and plant the remaining two in your garden, and they will bring you a blessing.’ Who acts: you, bits. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 41

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Give two bits to your wife to eat, two to your horse, and plant the remaining two in your garden, and they will bring you a blessing.’

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**Who acts:** you, bits · **What happens:** give, eat, plant, remain, bring · **To what, where:** two bits, wife, two, garden, blessing, you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bits), 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:pg7277:49:41
# text = Give two bits to your wife to eat, two to your horse, and plant the remaining two in your garden, and they will bring you a blessing.’
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	plant	plant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | two bits | your wife |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to wife=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | two |  |  |  | to your horse | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
| 3 | **plant** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | gerund | you *not said here* | two |  | your garden |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme two=Attribute |
| 5 | **bring** | future | bits *= bit* | a blessing | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination blessing=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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