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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 108

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And one day, when they and their father were walking on the lawn, the king began to joke with them, and to ask them whom they would like to be married to.

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**Who acts:** daughters, king · **What happens:** walk, begin, joke, ask, like, marry · **To what, where:** lawn, daughters · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, king), 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:pg3454:12:108
# text = And one day, when they and their father were walking on the lawn, the king began to joke with them, and to ask them whom they would like to be married to.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	joke	joke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | the lawn |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Trajectory |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the king |  |  |  | day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with daughters *= daughter* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **like** | would | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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