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title: What evil have I done to thee, that thou shouldest do so much to me,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What evil have I done to thee, that thou shouldest do so much to me, for in all my lands neither man nor beast that met that shower has escaped alive.” Who acts: that, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 57

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What evil have I done to thee, that thou shouldest do so much to me, for in all my lands neither man nor beast that met that shower has escaped alive.”

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**Who acts:** that, man · **What happens:** do, meet, escape · **To what, where:** evil, shower, lands

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, man), 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:pg3454:30:57
# text = What evil have I done to thee, that thou shouldest do so much to me, for in all my lands neither man nor beast that met that shower has escaped alive.”
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	TO	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
23	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
33	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect · passive |  | evil |  |  |  | to thee | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | should | that |  |  |  |  | for my lands | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | past | neither man nor beast | that shower |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **escape** | present · perfect | neither man nor beast | my lands *not said here* |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Initial\_Location |

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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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