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title: I have sought all over the land for the roots you desire; but they a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have sought all over the land for the roots you desire; but they are gathered in, and lie drying in musty cellars, and the fields are bare and desolate, for below in the valley winter reigns, only here in your presence spring is held fast, and wherever your foot is set the gay flowers bloom. Who a
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 76

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I have sought all over the land for the roots you desire; but they are gathered in, and lie drying in musty cellars, and the fields are bare and desolate, for below in the valley winter reigns, only here in your presence spring is held fast, and wherever your foot is set the gay flowers bloom.

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**Who acts:** I, you, fields, gay flowers · **What happens:** seek, desire, gather, lie, dry, be · **To what, where:** land, roots, musty cellars, presence spring, foot

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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 (I, you, fields, gay flowers), 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:pg3282:31:76
# text = I have sought all over the land for the roots you desire; but they are gathered in, and lie drying in musty cellars, and the fields are bare and desolate, for below in the valley winter reigns, only here in your presence spring is held fast, and wherever your foot is set the gay flowers bloom.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	musty	musty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	below	below	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	reigns	reign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
45	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	_
51	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	58	advmod	_	_
55	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nsubj	_	_
62	bloom	bloom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the land; here |  | for the roots; in the valley winter reigns; below *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent over land=Location for root=Theme |
| 2 | **desire** | present | you | the roots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot root=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** | present · passive |  | roots *= root* |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dry** | gerund |  |  |  | musty cellars |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | the fields |  |  |  |  | bare *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **desolate** | infinitive | the fields *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hold** | present · passive |  | your presence spring |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 9 | **set** | present · passive |  | your foot |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 10 | **bloom** | present | the gay flowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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