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title: Seven seas lie on our way—I will carry you over them; but if I have… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven seas lie on our way—I will carry you over them; but if I have not food and drink we shall fall into the sea and be drowned. Who acts: Seven seas, I, we. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 107

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Seven seas lie on our way—I will carry you over them; but if I have not food and drink we shall fall into the sea and be drowned.

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**Who acts:** Seven seas, I, we · **What happens:** lie, carry, have, fall, drown · **To what, where:** way, you, food, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven seas, I, we), 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:pg3282:4:107
# text = Seven seas lie on our way—I will carry you over them; but if I have not food and drink we shall fall into the sea and be drowned.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Seven seas |  |  | our way |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on way=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | future | I | you |  |  |  | over seas *= sea* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | food and drink |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
| 5 | **drown** | infinitive · passive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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