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title: By-and-by he was allowed to go out with the Bird and watch him at wo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By-and-by he was allowed to go out with the Bird and watch him at work, and at last there came a day when his master though that he had grown clever enough to help in a big robbery. Who acts: son, master. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dep
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 105

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By-and-by he was allowed to go out with the Bird and watch him at work, and at last there came a day when his master though that he had grown clever enough to help in a big robbery.

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**Who acts:** son, master · **What happens:** allow, go out, watch, come, grow, help · **To what, where:** son, work, last, big robbery

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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 (son, master), 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:pg3454:1:105
# text = By-and-by he was allowed to go out with the Bird and watch him at work, and at last there came a day when his master though that he had grown clever enough to help in a big robbery.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
36	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	robbery	robbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past · passive |  | son |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Bird; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bird=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive | son *not said here* | son |  | work |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past |  |  |  | last; there | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 5 | **grow** | past · perfect | son's master |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | son's master *not said here* |  |  | a big robbery |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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