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title: That, dear child, is the dish of hidden blessings, and we cannot tas… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That, dear child, is the dish of hidden blessings, and we cannot taste of it without bringing our happy life here to an end. Who acts: dear child, we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 125

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That, dear child, is the dish of hidden blessings, and we cannot taste of it without bringing our happy life here to an end.

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**Who acts:** dear child, we · **What happens:** be, not taste, bring · **To what, where:** dish, happy life, end

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, we), 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:pg641:2:125
# text = That, dear child, is the dish of hidden blessings, and we cannot taste of it without bringing our happy life here to an end.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that dear child | the dish |  |  |  | of hidden blessings | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **taste** | can | we |  |  |  |  | of wondering | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | we *not said here* | our happy life |  | here | to a end |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme to end=Destination |

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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 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.

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