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title: For many nights I have crept down to the palace, and have lowered my… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For many nights I have crept down to the palace, and have lowered myself in the bucket, bringing home with me enough cheese to feed the children. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 94

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For many nights I have crept down to the palace, and have lowered myself in the bucket, bringing home with me enough cheese to feed the children.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** creep down, lower, bring, feed · **To what, where:** palace, myself, bucket, enough cheese, children

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:6:94
# text = For many nights I have crept down to the palace, and have lowered myself in the bucket, bringing home with me enough cheese to feed the children.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	crept	creep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep down** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the palace | night | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 2 | **lower** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | myself |  | the bucket |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bucket=Destination |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | I *not said here* | enough cheese |  |  |  | with me; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feed** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | the children |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |

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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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