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title: ‘O my lord and gracious king, and you, nobles and wise men of the la… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘O my lord and gracious king, and you, nobles and wise men of the land, I leave my cause without fear in your hands, knowing that you will listen and judge rightly, and that you will suffer me to speak to the end, before you give judgment. Who acts: I, you, my. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» b
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 82

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‘O my lord and gracious king, and you, nobles and wise men of the land, I leave my cause without fear in your hands, knowing that you will listen and judge rightly, and that you will suffer me to speak to the end, before you give judgment.

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**Who acts:** I, you, my · **What happens:** leave, know, listen, judge, suffer, speak · **To what, where:** lord, me, judgment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, my), 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:pg3454:3:82
# text = ‘O my lord and gracious king, and you, nobles and wise men of the land, I leave my cause without fear in your hands, knowing that you will listen and judge rightly, and that you will suffer me to speak to the end, before you give judgment.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
37	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
54	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | I | my lord and gracious king and nobles and wise men of the land |  |  |  | without fear in your hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **listen** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **judge** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suffer** | future | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | to the end |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to end=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **give** | present | you | judgment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme |
| 8 | **cause** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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