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title: Four long years I was married to thee; Three sweet babes I bore to t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Four long years I was married to thee; Three sweet babes I bore to thee; Brown Bear of Norway, turn to me. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 95

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Four long years I was married to thee; Three sweet babes I bore to thee; Brown Bear of Norway, turn to me.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** marry, bear, turn · **To what, where:** Four long years, Three sweet babes, me

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3454:13:95
# text = Four long years I was married to thee; Three sweet babes I bore to thee; Brown Bear of Norway, turn to me.
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	TO	_	8	case	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	TO	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | Four long years |  |  |  | to thee; Three sweet babes *obl* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to thou=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past | I | Three sweet babes *not said here* |  |  |  | to thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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