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title: I have several fields belonging to me, and if they are kept well wat… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have several fields belonging to me, and if they are kept well watered they bear wonderful crops.' Who acts: I, several fields, fields. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 28

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I have several fields belonging to me, and if they are kept well watered they bear wonderful crops.'

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**Who acts:** I, several fields, fields · **What happens:** have, belong, keep, water, bear · **To what, where:** several fields, me, fields, wonderful crops

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, several fields, fields), 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:pg3027:19:28
# text = I have several fields belonging to me, and if they are kept well watered they bear wonderful crops.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | several fields |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | several fields *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | fields *= field* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **water** | participle | fields *= field* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bear** | present | fields *= field* | wonderful crops |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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