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title: Where shall the lips of the spring breathe fragrance, or the hand of… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Where shall the lips of the spring breathe fragrance, or the hand of autumn diffuse plenty? Who acts: lips, hand. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 19

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Where shall the lips of the spring breathe fragrance, or the hand of autumn diffuse plenty?

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**Who acts:** lips, hand · **What happens:** breathe, diffuse · **To what, where:** fragrance, plenty

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips, hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:17:19
# text = Where shall the lips of the spring breathe fragrance, or the hand of autumn diffuse plenty?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	diffuse	diffuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **breathe** | shall | the lips of the spring | fragrance |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme |
| 2 | **diffuse** | present | the hand of autumn | plenty |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plenty=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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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