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title: They waited two hours, and then they went to dinner, because there w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They waited two hours, and then they went to dinner, because there was no pull made at the rope. Who acts: others, pull. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 103

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They waited two hours, and then they went to dinner, because there was no pull made at the rope.

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**Who acts:** others, pull · **What happens:** wait, go, be, make · **To what, where:** dinner, pull, rope

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, pull), 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:pg3454:10:103
# text = They waited two hours, and then they went to dinner, because there was no pull made at the rope.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | others *= other* |  |  | dinner | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **be** | past | no pull |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | no pull *not said here* |  | the rope |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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