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title: Round and round the tree of gold, Round and round dance we, So doth… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Round and round the tree of gold, Round and round dance we, So doth the great world spin from of old, Summer and winter, and fire and cold, Song that is sung, and tale that is told, Even as we dance, that fold and unfold Round the stem of the fairy tree! Who acts: you, we, that. A sentence of «The B
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 74

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Round and round the tree of gold, Round and round dance we, So doth the great world spin from of old, Summer and winter, and fire and cold, Song that is sung, and tale that is told, Even as we dance, that fold and unfold Round the stem of the fairy tree!

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**Who acts:** you, we, that · **What happens:** round, do, sing, tell, dance, fold · **To what, where:** tree, great world spin, old, Song, tale, fairy tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, we, 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:pg503:27:74
# text = Round and round the tree of gold, Round and round dance we, So doth the great world spin from of old, Summer and winter, and fire and cold, Song that is sung, and tale that is told, Even as we dance, that fold and unfold Round the stem of the fairy tree!
1	Round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	round	round	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	So	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	nsubj	_	_
51	fold	fold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	unfold	unfold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
54	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tree of gold |  |  |  | round *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | the great world spin |  | old |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spin=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive |  | Song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | tale |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **dance** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fold** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **unfold** | present | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round the stem of the fairy tree | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **stem** |  |  | the fairy tree |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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