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title: I beg now that you will bid me farewell, for my way is long and the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I beg now that you will bid me farewell, for my way is long and the fire of your love darts flame into the harvest of my heart. Who acts: I, you, way, fire. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 29

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I beg now that you will bid me farewell, for my way is long and the fire of your love darts flame into the harvest of my heart.

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**Who acts:** I, you, way, fire, your · **What happens:** beg, bid, be, dart, fire, love · **To what, where:** me, flame, harvest, love

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, way, fire), 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:pg3282:3:29
# text = I beg now that you will bid me farewell, for my way is long and the fire of your love darts flame into the harvest of my heart.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	darts	dart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bid** | future | you | me |  |  |  | farewell *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | my way |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dart** | present | the fire of your love | flame |  | the harvest of my heart |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flame=Theme into harvest=Trajectory |
| 5 | **fire** |  |  | your love |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **love** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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