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title: You know the beautiful grotto and the bright silver walls whose lust… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You know the beautiful grotto and the bright silver walls whose lustre never fades, the sparkling diamonds which never grow dim, the music which never ceases its low, soft murmur through the sweet evening twilight. Who acts: You, lustre, music. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 30

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You know the beautiful grotto and the bright silver walls whose lustre never fades, the sparkling diamonds which never grow dim, the music which never ceases its low, soft murmur through the sweet evening twilight.

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**Who acts:** You, lustre, music · **What happens:** know, not fade, not grow, not cease, murmur · **To what, where:** beautiful grotto, sparkling diamonds, low soft murmur, sweet evening twilight

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, lustre, music), 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:pg3454:15:30
# text = You know the beautiful grotto and the bright silver walls whose lustre never fades, the sparkling diamonds which never grow dim, the music which never ceases its low, soft murmur through the sweet evening twilight.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grotto	grotto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	ceases	cease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
30	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You | the beautiful grotto and the bright silver walls and the sparkling diamonds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer grotto=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **fade** | present | lustre |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **grow** | present |  | the sparkling diamonds |  |  |  | dim *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **cease** | present | the music | lustre's low soft murmur |  | the sweet evening twilight |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality murmur=Eventuality |
| 5 | **murmur** |  | lustre |  |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event 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 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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