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title: “Loveliest daughter of earth,” said the gnome, “banish all sorrow; n… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Loveliest daughter of earth,” said the gnome, “banish all sorrow; no more shall you be lonely in my dwelling. Who acts: Loveliest daughter, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 41

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“Loveliest daughter of earth,” said the gnome, “banish all sorrow; no more shall you be lonely in my dwelling.

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**Who acts:** Loveliest daughter, you · **What happens:** say, banish, be · **To what, where:** gnome, sorrow, dwelling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Loveliest daughter, you), 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:pg3282:31:41
# text = “Loveliest daughter of earth,” said the gnome, “banish all sorrow; no more shall you be lonely in my dwelling.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	banish	banish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Loveliest daughter of earth | the gnome |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **banish** *in a quote* | infinitive | Loveliest daughter of earth *not said here* | all sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  | my dwelling |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |

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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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