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title: Go and seek him in some distant island, and I will send winds that w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go and seek him in some distant island, and I will send winds that will swell your sails and bring you to him. Who acts: you, I, winds. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 68

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Go and seek him in some distant island, and I will send winds that will swell your sails and bring you to him.

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**Who acts:** you, I, winds · **What happens:** go, seek, send, swell, bring · **To what, where:** father, distant island, winds, sails, you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, winds), 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:pg7277:19:68
# text = Go and seek him in some distant island, and I will send winds that will swell your sails and bring you to him.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	swell	swell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | infinitive | you *not said here* | father |  | some distant island |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in island=Location |
| 3 | **send** | future | I | winds |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 4 | **swell** | future | winds | your sails |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient sail=Extent |
| 5 | **bring** | infinitive | winds *not said here* | you | father |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to he=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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