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title: ‘Rejoice in us,’ said the air and sunshine, ‘rejoice in your fresh y… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Rejoice in us,’ said the air and sunshine, ‘rejoice in your fresh youth in the free air!’ A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 49

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‘Rejoice in us,’ said the air and sunshine, ‘rejoice in your fresh youth in the free air!’

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**What happens:** rejoice, say · **To what, where:** air, fresh youth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:11:49
# text = ‘Rejoice in us,’ said the air and sunshine, ‘rejoice in your fresh youth in the free air!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in us | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the air and sunshine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rejoice** | infinitive |  |  |  | your fresh youth |  | in the free air | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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