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title: Sad and lonely do I live like any hermit within these walls, avoided… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sad and lonely do I live like any hermit within these walls, avoided by the world and a terror even to animals; the beauties of nature are hidden from me, for I am blind by day, and it is only when the moon sheds her pale light on this spot that the veil falls from my eyes and I can see.’ Who acts: 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 128

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Sad and lonely do I live like any hermit within these walls, avoided by the world and a terror even to animals; the beauties of nature are hidden from me, for I am blind by day, and it is only when the moon sheds her pale light on this spot that the veil falls from my eyes and I can see.’

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**Who acts:** I, nature, veil, wife · **What happens:** live, avoid, hide, be, fall, see · **To what, where:** walls, beauties, spot, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nature, veil, wife), 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:pg7277:7:128
# text = Sad and lonely do I live like any hermit within these walls, avoided by the world and a terror even to animals; the beauties of nature are hidden from me, for I am blind by day, and it is only when the moon sheds her pale light on this spot that the veil falls from my eyes and I can see.’
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
44	only	only	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	48	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	sheds	shed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
59	from	from	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
63	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | like any hermit; within this walls | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **avoid** | participle |  | this walls *not said here* |  |  |  | by the world and a terror; to animals | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | present · passive |  | the beauties of nature |  |  |  | from me | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | day | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | nature |  |  | this spot |  | shed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | present | the veil | this spot *not said here* |  | my eyes |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient spot=Extent from eye=Initial\_State |
| 7 | **see** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **light** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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