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title: ‘I will lie here and rest under this tree,’ he said to his attendants. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I will lie here and rest under this tree,’ he said to his attendants. Who acts: I, sun. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 98

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‘I will lie here and rest under this tree,’ he said to his attendants.

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**Who acts:** I, sun · **What happens:** lie, rest, say · **To what, where:** tree · **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 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sun), 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:pg3454:1816`): 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:pg3454:20:98
# text = ‘I will lie here and rest under this tree,’ he said to his attendants.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | future | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | this tree |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sun |  |  |  |  | to sun's attendants | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to attendant=Experiencer clause=Topic |

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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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