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title: For seven hundred years have I watched over it, but now my time has… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For seven hundred years have I watched over it, but now my time has come; it is common property, let him find it who can. Who acts: I, time, earth, apparition. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 89

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For seven hundred years have I watched over it, but now my time has come; it is common property, let him find it who can.

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**Who acts:** I, time, earth, apparition · **What happens:** have, watch, come, be, let, find · **To what, where:** earth, common property, apparition

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, time, earth, apparition), 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:pg2435:15:89
# text = For seven hundred years have I watched over it, but now my time has come; it is common property, let him find it who can.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | participle | I |  |  | earth |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect | my time |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | earth | common property |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | apparition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | infinitive | apparition *not said here* | earth |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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