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title: Take, therefore, my daughter for your wife; but as she is still so y… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Take, therefore, my daughter for your wife; but as she is still so young, do not let the marriage be celebrated for another year.’ Who acts: you, daughter, marriage. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 37

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Take, therefore, my daughter for your wife; but as she is still so young, do not let the marriage be celebrated for another year.’

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**Who acts:** you, daughter, marriage · **What happens:** take, be, not let, celebrate · **To what, where:** daughter, marriage

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter, marriage), 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:pg7277:56:37
# text = Take, therefore, my daughter for your wife; but as she is still so young, do not let the marriage be celebrated for another year.’
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	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* | my daughter for your wife |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | daughter |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **let** | infinitive · do-support |  | the marriage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **celebrate** | infinitive · passive | the marriage *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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