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title: ‘Know’st thou, good man, that we are far too cramped on this wretche… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Know’st thou, good man, that we are far too cramped on this wretched rock, and where am I to find room for so many cows?’ Who acts: we, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 47

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‘Know’st thou, good man, that we are far too cramped on this wretched rock, and where am I to find room for so many cows?’

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**Who acts:** we, I · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** good man, wretched rock, room

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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 (we, I), 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:pg3454:24:47
# text = ‘Know’st thou, good man, that we are far too cramped on this wretched rock, and where am I to find room for so many cows?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Know’st	Know'st	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	cramped	cramped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | we | good man *not said here* |  | this wretched rock |  | cramped, far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | room |  |  |  | for many cows | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Theme for cow=Beneficiary |

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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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