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title: ‘Each o’ them fell to without leave, and only gave me the rough word… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Each o’ them fell to without leave, and only gave me the rough words when I told them they were making more free than welcome. Who acts: princes, I. 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 118

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‘Each o’ them fell to without leave, and only gave me the rough words when I told them they were making more free than welcome.

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**Who acts:** princes, I · **What happens:** fall, give, tell, make · **To what, where:** o, rough words, me, princes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (princes, I), 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:pg3454:10:118
# text = ‘Each o’ them fell to without leave, and only gave me the rough words when I told them they were making more free than welcome.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	o	o	NOUN	NN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	xcomp	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | princes *= prince* | each o |  |  |  | without leave | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | princes *= prince* *not said here* | the rough words | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient word=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I |  | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | past · progressive | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | 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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