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title: Shakespeare took them and put bits of them into ‘King Lear’ and othe… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Shakespeare took them and put bits of them into ‘King Lear’ and other plays; he could not have made them up himself, great as he was. Who acts: Shakespeare. 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 clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 37

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Shakespeare took them and put bits of them into ‘King Lear’ and other plays; he could not have made them up himself, great as he was.

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**Who acts:** Shakespeare · **What happens:** take, put, not make up, be · **To what, where:** Fes, bits, King Lear

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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 (Shakespeare), 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:pg3454:1:37
# text = Shakespeare took them and put bits of them into ‘King Lear’ and other plays; he could not have made them up himself, great as he was.
1	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Lear	Lear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Shakespeare | Fes *= fe* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Shakespeare *not said here* | bits of Fes |  | King Lear and other plays |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bit=Goal |
| 3 | **not** **make up** | could · perfect | Shakespeare | Fes *= fe* |  |  |  | Shakespeare *obl* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Pivot |
| 4 | **be** | past | Shakespeare |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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