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title: ‘Sweet be your life, for you have delivered me from my enchantment,’… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Sweet be your life, for you have delivered me from my enchantment,’ said he, and began to rub his nose against his brother’s. Who acts: Petru, my. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 31

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‘Sweet be your life, for you have delivered me from my enchantment,’ said he, and began to rub his nose against his brother’s.

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**Who acts:** Petru, my · **What happens:** be, deliver, say, begin, rub, enchant · **To what, where:** life, you, enchantment, nose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, my), 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:pg641:20:31
# text = ‘Sweet be your life, for you have delivered me from my enchantment,’ said he, and began to rub his nose against his brother’s.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | Petru *not said here* | your life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  | my enchantment |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Petru |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Petru *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **rub** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* | Petru's nose |  |  |  | against Petru's brother | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against brother=Destination |
| 6 | **enchant** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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