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title: In grief for their death I have abandoned my throne, and I abide her… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In grief for their death I have abandoned my throne, and I abide here in this desert, withholding my hand from all State business and wearing myself away in sorrow.” Who acts: I, sons. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 75

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In grief for their death I have abandoned my throne, and I abide here in this desert, withholding my hand from all State business and wearing myself away in sorrow.”

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**Who acts:** I, sons · **What happens:** abandon, abide, withhold, wear away, die · **To what, where:** throne, grief, desert, hand, State business, myself

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sons), 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:pg3282:1:75
# text = In grief for their death I have abandoned my throne, and I abide here in this desert, withholding my hand from all State business and wearing myself away in sorrow.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	abide	abide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	withholding	withhold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
29	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** | present · perfect | I | my throne |  | grief for sons's death |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme throne=Source |
| 2 | **abide** | present | I |  |  | this desert; here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **withhold** | gerund | I *not said here* | my hand |  | all State business |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wear away** | gerund | I *not said here* | myself |  | sorrow |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent myself=Source |
| 5 | **die** |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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