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title: My home is in the river, for my moustache is the grey fever-mist tha… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My home is in the river, for my moustache is the grey fever-mist that hangs above the water, and with which I bind all those that come unto me so that they die.' Who acts: home, moustache, grey fever mist, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

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My home is in the river, for my moustache is the grey fever-mist that hangs above the water, and with which I bind all those that come unto me so that they die.'

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**Who acts:** home, moustache, grey fever mist, I, debou · **What happens:** be, hang, bind, come, die · **To what, where:** river, water, those

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, moustache, grey fever mist, I), 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:pg3027:2:4
# text = My home is in the river, for my moustache is the grey fever-mist that hangs above the water, and with which I bind all those that come unto me so that they die.'
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	moustache	moustache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	bind	bind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
29	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My home |  |  | the river and the grey fever mist |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | my moustache |  |  |  |  | for the grey fever mist | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | present | the grey fever mist |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above water=Location |
| 4 | **bind** | present | I | those |  |  |  | with the river and the grey fever mist | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent that=Patient with which=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | unto me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **die** | present | debou |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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