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title: Perhaps he has taken you to see all the countries of the world and t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 34

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Perhaps he has taken you to see all the countries of the world and the peoples, the cold waste lands and the burning deserts, the many coloured men and the wild creatures in the sea and in the woods, so that you may earn many things, but come gladly home again.

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**Who acts:** boy, you · **What happens:** take, see, earn, come · **To what, where:** you, countries, sea, many things

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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 (boy, 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:pg3454:15:34
# text = Perhaps he has taken you to see all the countries of the world and the peoples, the cold waste lands and the burning deserts, the many coloured men and the wild creatures in the sea and in the woods, so that you may earn many things, but come gladly home again.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	47	mark	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
48	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
53	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	home	home	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	again	again	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | boy |  | you |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | all countries of the world and the peoples and the cold waste lands and the burning deserts and the many coloured men and the wild creatures |  | the sea and the woods |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
| 3 | **earn** | may | you | many things |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again | gladly, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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