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title: To-day I crossed the sea and saw you for the first time and I was gl… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To-day I crossed the sea and saw you for the first time and I was glad to be a bird that I could come near you. Who acts: I, bird. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 16

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To-day I crossed the sea and saw you for the first time and I was glad to be a bird that I could come near you.

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**Who acts:** I, bird · **What happens:** cross, see, be, come · **To what, where:** sea, you, bird

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bird), 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:pg7439:35:16
# text = To-day I crossed the sea and saw you for the first time and I was glad to be a bird that I could come near you.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | I | the sea |  |  | day |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | I *not said here* | you |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | could | a bird |  |  |  |  | near you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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