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title: One morning he went into the treasure room, and took notice of a bea… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning he went into the treasure room, and took notice of a beautiful snuff-box on the table that he didn’t remember seeing there before. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 44

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One morning he went into the treasure room, and took notice of a beautiful snuff-box on the table that he didn’t remember seeing there before.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** go, take, not remember, not see, notice · **To what, where:** treasure room, notice, table, beautiful snuff box

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg3454:11:44
# text = One morning he went into the treasure room, and took notice of a beautiful snuff-box on the table that he didn’t remember seeing there before.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
27	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | prince |  |  | the treasure room | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | prince *not said here* | notice of a beautiful snuff box |  | the table |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent notice=Theme on table=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **remember** | past · do-support | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  | there |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **notice** |  |  | a beautiful snuff box |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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