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title: If you could only know all I have suffered, and what a weary way I h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you could only know all I have suffered, and what a weary way I have come to seek you.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 53

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If you could only know all I have suffered, and what a weary way I have come to seek you.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** know, suffer, come, seek · **To what, where:** all, weary way, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. 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), 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:pg7277:5:53
# text = If you could only know all I have suffered, and what a weary way I have come to seek you.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | could | you | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suffer** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect | I | a weary way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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