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title: It is nearly done, and I will join you in the fir wood at whatever h… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is nearly done, and I will join you in the fir wood at whatever hour you please.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 19

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It is nearly done, and I will join you in the fir wood at whatever hour you please.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, join · **To what, where:** cross, you, fir wood

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3454:26:19
# text = It is nearly done, and I will join you in the fir wood at whatever hour you please.’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	appos	_	_
17	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
19	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · passive |  | cross |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **join** | future | I | you |  | the fir wood |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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