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title: Here are all my fine fellows coming up and we’ll each pull up a tree… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here are all my fine fellows coming up and we’ll each pull up a tree by the roots and lay you all flat and your houses and towns and everything else! Who acts: fine fellows, we. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 48

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Here are all my fine fellows coming up and we’ll each pull up a tree by the roots and lay you all flat and your houses and towns and everything else!

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**Who acts:** fine fellows, we · **What happens:** be, come up, pull up, lay · **To what, where:** tree, you

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine fellows, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:1450`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:16:48
# text = Here are all my fine fellows coming up and we’ll each pull up a tree by the roots and lay you all flat and your houses and towns and everything else!
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
24	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	conj	_	_
32	else	else	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | my fine fellows |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come up** | gerund | my fine fellows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pull up** | future | we | a tree |  |  |  | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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