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title: ‘I am that raven, and I was delivered by thee from the spells that b… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am that raven, and I was delivered by thee from the spells that bound me, and in reward thou wilt get this bundle. Who acts: I, thee, spells, thou. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 44

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‘I am that raven, and I was delivered by thee from the spells that bound me, and in reward thou wilt get this bundle.

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**Who acts:** I, thee, spells, thou · **What happens:** be, deliver, bound, get · **To what, where:** raven, I, spells, me, bundle, reward

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thee, spells, thou), 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:pg3454:28:44
# text = ‘I am that raven, and I was delivered by thee from the spells that bound me, and in reward thou wilt get this bundle.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | that raven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | past · passive | thee | I |  | the spells |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from spell=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bound** | present | the spells | me |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location i=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | future | thou | this bundle |  | reward |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bundle=Stimulus |

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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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