--- title: ‘Sadly did I go down the hill again, and when I reached the glade wh… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Sadly did I go down the hill again, and when I reached the glade where the black man was, I confess to thee, Kai, it was a marvel that I did not melt into a liquid pool, so great was my shame. Who acts: I, black man, glade. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, black man, glade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:30:60 # text = ‘Sadly did I go down the hill again, and when I reached the glade where the black man was, I confess to thee, Kai, it was a marvel that I did not melt into a liquid pool, so great was my shame. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sadly sadly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 down down ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 glade glade NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 confess confess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to ADP TO _ 26 case _ _ 26 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 marvel marvel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 melt melt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go down** | past · do-support | I | the hill | | | again | sadly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent | | 2 | **reach** | past | I | the glade | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent glade=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the black man | | | | | to thee; confess *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | glade | a marvel | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **melt** | past · do-support | I | a marvel | | a liquid pool | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into pool=Product | | 6 | **is a** | past | | my great shame | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/61/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/)