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title: Thou knowest well that alone thou canst not preserve thy lands, ther… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou knowest well that alone thou canst not preserve thy lands, therefore seek some one to help thee.’ Who acts: Thou. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 4

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Thou knowest well that alone thou canst not preserve thy lands, therefore seek some one to help thee.’

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** know, not preserve, seek, help · **To what, where:** lands, one, thee

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3454:31:4
# text = Thou knowest well that alone thou canst not preserve thy lands, therefore seek some one to help thee.’
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
7	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **preserve** | can | thou | thy lands |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **seek** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* | some one |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |

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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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