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title: I’m a lady of honour Who live in the sea; Come down, Maurice Connor,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I’m a lady of honour Who live in the sea; Come down, Maurice Connor, And be married to me. Who acts: I, honour. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 48

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I’m a lady of honour Who live in the sea; Come down, Maurice Connor, And be married to me.

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**Who acts:** I, honour · **What happens:** be, live, come down, marry · **To what, where:** lady, sea, Maurice Connor, me

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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 (I, honour), 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:pg3454:18:48
# text = I’m a lady of honour Who live in the sea; Come down, Maurice Connor, And be married to me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | I | a lady of honour |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lady=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | honour |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
| 3 | **come down** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Maurice Connor |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **marry** | infinitive · passive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to i=Co-Patient |

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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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