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title: Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Blac… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Black Gallows Bird, and many were the new tricks he learned. Who acts: evening, many new tricks. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 104

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Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Black Gallows Bird, and many were the new tricks he learned.

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**Who acts:** evening, many new tricks · **What happens:** go, be, learn · **To what, where:** home, many new tricks

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, many new tricks), 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:pg3454:1:104
# text = Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Black Gallows Bird, and many were the new tricks he learned.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | every evening after the dark Shifty Lad |  |  | the home of the Gallows Bird |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the many new tricks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | past | the many new tricks |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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