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title: ‘Sit thou between two of my warriors, and thou shalt have minstrels… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Sit thou between two of my warriors, and thou shalt have minstrels before thee and all that belongs to one born to be a king, while thou remainest in my palace.’ Who acts: you, thou, that. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree a
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 58

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‘Sit thou between two of my warriors, and thou shalt have minstrels before thee and all that belongs to one born to be a king, while thou remainest in my palace.’

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**Who acts:** you, thou, that · **What happens:** sit, have, belong, bear, be, remain · **To what, where:** thou, two, minstrels, one, king, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, that), 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:pg3454:38:58
# text = ‘Sit thou between two of my warriors, and thou shalt have minstrels before thee and all that belongs to one born to be a king, while thou remainest in my palace.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
31	remainest	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* | thou |  | two of my warriors |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme between two=Location |
| 2 | **have** | shall | thou | minstrels |  |  | before thee |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=Patient |
| 3 | **belong** | present | that |  | one |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **remain** | present | thou |  |  | my palace |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=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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