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title: I require thee to sow fresh flax in the ground that my daughter may… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I require thee to sow fresh flax in the ground that my daughter may wear a veil spun from it on the day of her wedding.’ Who acts: I, daughter. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 49

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I require thee to sow fresh flax in the ground that my daughter may wear a veil spun from it on the day of her wedding.’

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**Who acts:** I, daughter · **What happens:** require, sow, wear, spin, wed · **To what, where:** thee, fresh flax, ground, veil, flax

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter), 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:pg3454:39:49
# text = I require thee to sow fresh flax in the ground that my daughter may wear a veil spun from it on the day of her wedding.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sow	sow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Precondition |
| 2 | **sow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | fresh flax |  | the ground |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flax=Theme in ground=Destination |
| 3 | **wear** | may | my daughter | the ground |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spin** | participle |  | a veil *not said here* |  | flax | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **wed** |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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