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title: Then you might make a little arbour up there to let us have a sea-vi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then you might make a little arbour up there to let us have a sea-view; and we might have a fiddler to fiddle to us of an evening, and a little steamer to take us to church in stormy weather.’ Who acts: you, us, we, fiddler. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 37

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Then you might make a little arbour up there to let us have a sea-view; and we might have a fiddler to fiddle to us of an evening, and a little steamer to take us to church in stormy weather.’

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**Who acts:** you, us, we, fiddler · **What happens:** make, let, have, fiddle, take · **To what, where:** little arbour, us, sea view, fiddler, stormy weather

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we, fiddler), 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:pg3454:24:37
# text = Then you might make a little arbour up there to let us have a sea-view; and we might have a fiddler to fiddle to us of an evening, and a little steamer to take us to church in stormy weather.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	arbour	arbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fiddle	fiddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	steamer	steamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | might | you | a little arbour |  | there | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arbour=Product |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | us *not said here* | a sea view |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | might | we | a fiddler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fiddle** | to-infinitive | a fiddler *not said here* |  | us |  | evening |  | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | us |  | stormy weather |  | to church | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to church=Destination |

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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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