--- title: Their father answered sadly, ‘How can I bear it if, when you are far… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Their father answered sadly, ‘How can I bear it if, when you are far away, I know nothing about you?’ and they said, ‘The golden lilies will tell you all about us if you look at them. Who acts: father, I, you, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I, you, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:49:46 # text = Their father answered sadly, ‘How can I bear it if, when you are far away, I know nothing about you?’ and they said, ‘The golden lilies will tell you all about us if you look at them. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 obj _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nmod:unmarked _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | children's father | | | | | sadly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bear** | can | I | world | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | present | I | nothing | | | | about you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | children *= child* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | the golden lilies | | you | | | about us | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about we=Topic | | 7 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | at children *= child* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/47/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Lads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/)