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title: So all the answer she made was that the end of thieves was hanging a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So all the answer she made was that the end of thieves was hanging at the bridge of Dublin, and then she left him alone, hoping that when he was older he might become more sensible. Who acts: answer, end, widow, older. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 70

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So all the answer she made was that the end of thieves was hanging at the bridge of Dublin, and then she left him alone, hoping that when he was older he might become more sensible.

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**Who acts:** answer, end, widow, older · **What happens:** make, hang, leave, hope, be, become · **To what, where:** answer, bridge, widow

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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 (answer, end, widow, older), 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:pg3454:1:70
# text = So all the answer she made was that the end of thieves was hanging at the bridge of Dublin, and then she left him alone, hoping that when he was older he might become more sensible.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	nsubj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
37	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | answer | all answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |
| 2 | **hang** | past · progressive | all answer |  |  | the bridge of Dublin |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bridge=Location |
| 3 | **leave** | past | end | widow |  |  | then | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **hope** | gerund | all answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** | past | widow |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | might | older |  |  |  |  | sensible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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