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title: ‘By showing me where the Milk Lake is, and how I can get one of the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘By showing me where the Milk Lake is, and how I can get one of the three fairies who lives there to wife, and by letting me remain your son for ever.’ Who acts: Milk Lake, I, three fairies, me. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 67

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‘By showing me where the Milk Lake is, and how I can get one of the three fairies who lives there to wife, and by letting me remain your son for ever.’

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**Who acts:** Milk Lake, I, three fairies, me · **What happens:** show, be, get, live, let, remain · **To what, where:** me, one, wife, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Milk Lake, I, three fairies, me), 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:pg641:44:67
# text = ‘By showing me where the Milk Lake is, and how I can get one of the three fairies who lives there to wife, and by letting me remain your son for ever.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Milk	Milk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	iobj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | gerund |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | the Milk Lake |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | can | I | one of the three fairies |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **live** | present | the three fairies | wife |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | gerund |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **remain** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  | your son |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Attribute |

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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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