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title: It weighs upon and is killing me, as the general fash of being the w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It weighs upon and is killing me, as the general fash of being the wife of the Lord of Burleigh, Burleigh House by Stamford Town, was too much for the village maiden espoused by that peer. Who acts: reputation, general fash. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 30

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It weighs upon and is killing me, as the general fash of being the wife of the Lord of Burleigh, Burleigh House by Stamford Town, was too much for the village maiden espoused by that peer.

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**Who acts:** reputation, general fash · **What happens:** weigh upon, kill, be, espouse · **To what, where:** me, village maiden

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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 (reputation, general fash), 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:pg3454:1:30
# text = It weighs upon and is killing me, as the general fash of being the wife of the Lord of Burleigh, Burleigh House by Stamford Town, was too much for the village maiden espoused by that peer.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fash	fash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Burleigh	Burleigh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Burleigh	Burleigh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Stamford	Stamford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	espoused	espouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh upon** | present | reputation |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | present · progressive | reputation *not said here* | me |  |  |  | as the general fash | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Duration as fash=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the wife; of the Lord of Burleigh | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the general fash *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Stamford Town; for the village maiden; much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **espouse** | participle |  | the village maiden *not said here* |  |  |  | by that peer | tree rules |

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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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