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title: But tell us now, Whene’er you roam, Do you not find the best is home… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But tell us now, Whene’er you roam, Do you not find the best is home Of all the lands you’ve looked upon, Lasse, Little Lasse? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 8

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But tell us now, Whene’er you roam, Do you not find the best is home Of all the lands you’ve looked upon, Lasse, Little Lasse?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tell, roam, not find, be, look upon · **To what, where:** us, Lasse, best home, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg3454:15:8
# text = But tell us now, Whene’er you roam, Do you not find the best is home Of all the lands you’ve looked upon, Lasse, Little Lasse?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Whene’er	whene'er	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | us |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 2 | **roam** | present | you |  |  |  |  | whene'er *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | present · do-support | you | Lasse and Little Lasse |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lasse=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the best home |  |  |  | of all lands | tree rules |
| 5 | **look upon** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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