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title: Beyond all other places Iveragh is the place for stormy coasts and s… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Beyond all other places Iveragh is the place for stormy coasts and steep mountains, as proper a spot it is as any in Ireland to get yourself drowned, or your neck broken on the land, should you prefer that. Who acts: Iveragh, yourself, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Li
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 11

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Beyond all other places Iveragh is the place for stormy coasts and steep mountains, as proper a spot it is as any in Ireland to get yourself drowned, or your neck broken on the land, should you prefer that.

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**Who acts:** Iveragh, yourself, you · **What happens:** be, get, drown, break, prefer · **To what, where:** place, yourself, neck, land, that

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iveragh, yourself, 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:pg3454:18:11
# text = Beyond all other places Iveragh is the place for stormy coasts and steep mountains, as proper a spot it is as any in Ireland to get yourself drowned, or your neck broken on the land, should you prefer that.
1	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	Iveragh	Iveragh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
34	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	prefer	prefer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Iveragh | the place or your neck |  |  |  | beyond all other places; for stormy coasts and steep mountains | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Iveragh *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drown** | participle | yourself *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  | your neck *not said here* |  | the land |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |
| 5 | **prefer** | should | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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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