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title: But it was not till the moon had risen that the sister came, and as… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was not till the moon had risen that the sister came, and as she let down her bucket into the well, the leaves seemed to whisper 'Lyma! Who acts: sister, leaves. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 111

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But it was not till the moon had risen that the sister came, and as she let down her bucket into the well, the leaves seemed to whisper 'Lyma!

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**Who acts:** sister, leaves · **What happens:** not rise, come, let down, seem, whisper · **To what, where:** water, bucket, well, Lyma

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, leaves), 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:pg3027:35:111
# text = But it was not till the moon had risen that the sister came, and as she let down her bucket into the well, the leaves seemed to whisper 'Lyma!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
5	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Lyma	Lyma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rise** | past · perfect · passive |  | water |  |  | till the moon |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let down** | past | sister | sister's bucket |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the leaves |  |  | the well |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the leaves *not said here* | Lyma |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lyma=Topic |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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