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title: Among the mountain pastures and valleys that lie in the centre of Fr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the mountain pastures and valleys that lie in the centre of France there dwelt a mischievous kind of spirit, whose delight it was to play tricks on everybody, and particularly on the shepherds and the cowboys. Who acts: valleys, kind, mischievous kind. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by A
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 23

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Among the mountain pastures and valleys that lie in the centre of France there dwelt a mischievous kind of spirit, whose delight it was to play tricks on everybody, and particularly on the shepherds and the cowboys.

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**Who acts:** valleys, kind, mischievous kind · **What happens:** lie, dwell, be, delight · **To what, where:** mischievous kind, centre, everybody

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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 (valleys, kind, mischievous kind), 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:pg3454:10:23
# text = Among the mountain pastures and valleys that lie in the centre of France there dwelt a mischievous kind of spirit, whose delight it was to play tricks on everybody, and particularly on the shepherds and the cowboys.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pastures	pasture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	cowboys	cowboy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | valleys |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | valleys *not said here* | a mischievous kind of spirit |  | the centre of France; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme kind=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | kind |  |  | everybody |  | play *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **delight** |  | a mischievous kind of spirit |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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