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title: ‘Here I must leave you,’ said the deer, ‘but to-morrow meet me at mi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Here I must leave you,’ said the deer, ‘but to-morrow meet me at midday in the church that is yonder.’ Who acts: I, church. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 98

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‘Here I must leave you,’ said the deer, ‘but to-morrow meet me at midday in the church that is yonder.’

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**Who acts:** I, church · **What happens:** leave, say, meet, be · **To what, where:** you, deer, me, midday · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, church), 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:pg3454:16:98
# text = ‘Here I must leave you,’ said the deer, ‘but to-morrow meet me at midday in the church that is yonder.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | must | I | you |  | here |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the deer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | present |  | me |  | midday |  | to morrow; in the church | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the church |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |

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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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