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title: Little staff of apple-tree, Over the earth and over the sea, Up in t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little staff of apple-tree, Over the earth and over the sea, Up in the air be guide to me, Everywhere to wander free, A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 54

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Little staff of apple-tree, Over the earth and over the sea, Up in the air be guide to me, Everywhere to wander free,

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**What happens:** be, wander · **To what, where:** air guide, me

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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: 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:pg3454:34:54
# text = Little staff of apple-tree, Over the earth and over the sea, Up in the air be guide to me, Everywhere to wander free,
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
28	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | air guide | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wander** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | everywhere, free *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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