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title: I was on my way to the Sweet Milk Lake, which lies not far from here… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I was on my way to the Sweet Milk Lake, which lies not far from here, to marry one of the three fairies who have made the lake their home. Who acts: I, way, three fairies. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 28

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I was on my way to the Sweet Milk Lake, which lies not far from here, to marry one of the three fairies who have made the lake their home.

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**Who acts:** I, way, three fairies · **What happens:** be, not lie, marry, make · **To what, where:** way, one, lake

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way, three fairies), 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:pg641:44:28
# text = I was on my way to the Sweet Milk Lake, which lies not far from here, to marry one of the three fairies who have made the lake their home.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Milk	Milk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  | my way |  | to the Sweet Milk Lake | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **lie** | present | my way |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive | my way *not said here* | one of the three fairies |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | present · perfect | the three fairies | the lake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset lake=Beneficiary home=Product |

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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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