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title: There is a lake down there below us, and anyone who bathes in it, th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a lake down there below us, and anyone who bathes in it, though he were at death’s door, becomes sound and well on the spot, and those who wash their eyes with the dew on this hill become as sharp-sighted as the eagle, even if they have been blind from their youth.’ Who acts: lake, Ferko, a
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 30

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There is a lake down there below us, and anyone who bathes in it, though he were at death’s door, becomes sound and well on the spot, and those who wash their eyes with the dew on this hill become as sharp-sighted as the eagle, even if they have been blind from their youth.’

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**Who acts:** lake, Ferko, anyone, those, eyes · **What happens:** be, bathe, become, wash, sight · **To what, where:** door, sound, eyes, hill, youth

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake, Ferko, anyone, those), 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:pg640:14:30
# text = There is a lake down there below us, and anyone who bathes in it, though he were at death’s door, becomes sound and well on the spot, and those who wash their eyes with the dew on this hill become as sharp-sighted as the eagle, even if they have been blind from their youth.’
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
7	below	below	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bathes	bathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
34	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
45	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	sighted	sight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	xcomp	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	even	even	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
55	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	59	cop	_	_
59	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	parataxis	_	_
60	from	from	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	59	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a lake |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bathe** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in lake | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ferko |  |  | death's door |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | present | anyone | sound and the spot |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **wash** | present |  | sound's eyes |  | this hill |  | with the dew | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with dew=Instrument |
| 6 | **become** | present | those |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sight** | participle | those *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the eagle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | eyes *= eye* |  |  | eyes's youth |  | blind *property* | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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