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title: Now, unless you have been under the sea and beheld all the wonders t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, unless you have been under the sea and beheld all the wonders that lie there, you can never have an idea what the Groac’h’s palace was like. Who acts: wonders, you, palace. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 3

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Now, unless you have been under the sea and beheld all the wonders that lie there, you can never have an idea what the Groac’h’s palace was like.

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**Who acts:** wonders, you, palace · **What happens:** behold, lie, not have, be · **To what, where:** you, idea

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonders, you, palace), 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:pg3454:34:3
# text = Now, unless you have been under the sea and beheld all the wonders that lie there, you can never have an idea what the Groac’h’s palace was like.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present | all wonders |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **have** | can | you | a idea |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Groac’h's palace |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |

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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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