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title: In a beautiful island that lies in the southern seas, where chains o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a beautiful island that lies in the southern seas, where chains of gay orchids bind the trees together, and the days and nights are equally long and nearly equally hot, there once lived a family of seven sisters. Who acts: beautiful island, chains, days. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by An
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 63

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In a beautiful island that lies in the southern seas, where chains of gay orchids bind the trees together, and the days and nights are equally long and nearly equally hot, there once lived a family of seven sisters.

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**Who acts:** beautiful island, chains, days · **What happens:** lie, bind, be, live · **To what, where:** southern seas, trees, family, beautiful island

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful island, chains, days), 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:pg3454:22:63
# text = In a beautiful island that lies in the southern seas, where chains of gay orchids bind the trees together, and the days and nights are equally long and nearly equally hot, there once lived a family of seven sisters.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
13	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	orchids	orchid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	bind	bind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
36	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	37	advmod	_	_
37	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | a beautiful island |  |  | the southern seas |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location |
| 2 | **bind** | present | chains of gay orchids | the trees |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the days and nights |  |  |  |  | equally, long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the days and nights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | equally *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | past |  | a family of seven sisters |  | a beautiful island; there |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location |

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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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