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title: Now a serai, you must know, is generally just a large square enclose… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now a serai, you must know, is generally just a large square enclosed by a high wall with an open colonnade along the inside all round to accommodate both men and beasts, and with perhaps a few rooms in towers at the corners for those who are too rich or too proud to care about sleeping by their own
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 45

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Now a serai, you must know, is generally just a large square enclosed by a high wall with an open colonnade along the inside all round to accommodate both men and beasts, and with perhaps a few rooms in towers at the corners for those who are too rich or too proud to care about sleeping by their own camels and horses.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** know, be, enclose, accommodate, care, sleep · **To what, where:** serai, large square, men

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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), 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:pg3454:15:45
# text = Now a serai, you must know, is generally just a large square enclosed by a high wall with an open colonnade along the inside all round to accommodate both men and beasts, and with perhaps a few rooms in towers at the corners for those who are too rich or too proud to care about sleeping by their own camels and horses.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	serai	serai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	colonnade	colonnade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
31	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	nmod	_	_
49	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
50	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	too	too	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	too	too	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
59	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	advcl	_	_
60	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
62	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | must | you | a serai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer serai=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a large square |  |  |  | a serai *obl*; generally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **enclose** | participle |  | a large square *not said here* |  |  |  | by a high wall with a open colonnade; along the inside; round *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **accommodate** | to-infinitive |  | both men and beasts |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **care** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by corners's own camels and horses | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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