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title: Lest, like the simple Arab in the tale, I grow perplext, O God! 'twi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lest, like the simple Arab in the tale, I grow perplext, O God! 'twixt ME and THEE, If I--this Spirit that inspires me whence? Who acts: I, you, Spirit. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 7

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Lest, like the simple Arab in the tale, I grow perplext, O God! 'twixt ME and THEE, If I--this Spirit that inspires me whence?

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**Who acts:** I, you, Spirit · **What happens:** grow, twixt, inspire · **To what, where:** perplext, ME

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Spirit), 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:pg14241:46:7
# text = Lest, like the simple Arab in the tale, I grow perplext, O God! 'twixt ME and THEE, If I--this Spirit that inspires me whence?
1	Lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
13	perplext	perplext	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	twixt	twixt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	ME	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	THEE	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	inspires	inspire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | I | perplext |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location perplext=Theme |
| 2 | **twixt** | imperative | you *not said here* | ME |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inspire** | present | this Spirit | me |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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