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title: Tell me thy sorrow that I may bear it with thee, or, it may be, help… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell me thy sorrow that I may bear it with thee, or, it may be, help thee!’ Who acts: you, sorrow, matter, thy. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 3

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Tell me thy sorrow that I may bear it with thee, or, it may be, help thee!’

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**Who acts:** you, sorrow, matter, thy · **What happens:** tell, bear, be, help, sorrow · **To what, where:** me, matter, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sorrow, matter, thy), 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:pg3454:9:3
# text = Tell me thy sorrow that I may bear it with thee, or, it may be, help thee!’
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bear** | may | thy sorrow | matter |  |  |  | with thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | may | matter |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **sorrow** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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