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title: They carried him in turns, but even so they grew very tired and thir… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They carried him in turns, but even so they grew very tired and thirsty, and when a little tavern came in sight on the roadside, they thankfully flung the sack down on a bench and entered to refresh themselves. Who acts: Toueno, little tavern. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 80

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They carried him in turns, but even so they grew very tired and thirsty, and when a little tavern came in sight on the roadside, they thankfully flung the sack down on a bench and entered to refresh themselves.

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**Who acts:** Toueno, little tavern · **What happens:** carry, grow, come in, fling down, enter, refresh · **To what, where:** Antoine, turns, roadside, sack, bench, Toueno

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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 (Toueno, little tavern), 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:pg3454:12:80
# text = They carried him in turns, but even so they grew very tired and thirsty, and when a little tavern came in sight on the roadside, they thankfully flung the sack down on a bench and entered to refresh themselves.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	refresh	refresh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Toueno | Antoine |  | turns |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in turn=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Toueno |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come in** | past | a little tavern |  |  | the roadside |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roadside=Location |
| 4 | **fling down** | past | Toueno | the sack |  | a bench |  | down, thankfully *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on bench=Destination |
| 5 | **enter** | past | Toueno *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **refresh** | to-infinitive | Toueno *not said here* | Toueno |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |

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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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