--- title: But if you can bring me water from the spring of the Fairy of the Da… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But if you can bring me water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn, to bathe my eyes, then they will laugh for evermore; for I shall know that my sons are brave enough to overcome any foe.’ Who acts: you, enemies, I, sons. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Da --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/) / 34 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 34 But if you can bring me water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn, to bathe my eyes, then they will laugh for evermore; for I shall know that my sons are brave enough to overcome any foe.’ **Who acts:** you, enemies, I, sons · **What happens:** bring, bathe, laugh, know, be, overcome · **To what, where:** water, me, eyes, foe This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (you, enemies, I, sons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:19:34 # text = But if you can bring me water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn, to bathe my eyes, then they will laugh for evermore; for I shall know that my sons are brave enough to overcome any foe.’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Dawn Dawn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 bathe bathe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 evermore evermore ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ _ 39 enough enough ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 overcome overcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 42 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 43 foe foe NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | water | me | | spring | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination water=Theme | | 2 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | | my eyes | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination | | 3 | **laugh** | future | enemies *= enemy* | | | | then | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | shall | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | my sons | | | | | brave, enough *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **overcome** | to-infinitive | my sons *not said here* | any foe | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foe=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/35/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/)