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title: Though your mother’s care is deep, You can lie with heart at rest In… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Though your mother’s care is deep, You can lie with heart at rest In the narrow brass-bound chest; In the starless night and drear You can sleep, and never hear Billows breaking, and the cry Of the night-wind wandering by; In soft purple mantle sleeping With your little face on mine, Hearing not you
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 13

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Though your mother’s care is deep, You can lie with heart at rest In the narrow brass-bound chest; In the starless night and drear You can sleep, and never hear Billows breaking, and the cry Of the night-wind wandering by; In soft purple mantle sleeping With your little face on mine, Hearing not your mother weeping And the breaking of the brine.”

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**Who acts:** care, You, Billows, night wind, soft purple mantle, mother · **What happens:** be, lie, sleep, not hear, break, wonder · **To what, where:** rest, Billows

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, You, Billows, night wind), 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:pg503:27:13
# text = Though your mother’s care is deep, You can lie with heart at rest In the narrow brass-bound chest; In the starless night and drear You can sleep, and never hear Billows breaking, and the cry Of the night-wind wandering by; In soft purple mantle sleeping With your little face on mine, Hearing not your mother weeping And the breaking of the brine.”
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	In	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	starless	starless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drear	drear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
37	Billows	billow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
43	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
48	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	In	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
55	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	acl	_	_
56	With	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
64	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	67	advmod	_	_
65	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
66	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	_
67	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
68	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	breaking	breaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	brine	brine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | your mother's care |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | can | You |  |  | rest in the narrow bound chest | night | with heart | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at rest=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | can | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | infinitive | You *not said here* | Billows |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer billow=Stimulus |
| 5 | **break** | gerund | Billows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the night wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **sleep** | gerund | soft purple mantle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your little face; on mine | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **care** |  | your mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **cry** |  | the night wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 10 | **weep** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom weeping «act 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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