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title: ‘My lovely rose laurel, with the golden rake I have raked thee, with… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My lovely rose laurel, with the golden rake I have raked thee, with the golden bucket I have watered thee, with a silken towel I have dried thee. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 161

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‘My lovely rose laurel, with the golden rake I have raked thee, with the golden bucket I have watered thee, with a silken towel I have dried thee.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** rake, water, dry · **To what, where:** thee

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg540:2:161
# text = ‘My lovely rose laurel, with the golden rake I have raked thee, with the golden bucket I have watered thee, with a silken towel I have dried thee.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	raked	rake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rake** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | with the golden bucket | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thou=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **water** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  | with a silken towel | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=Destination with towel=Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thou=Result |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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