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title: One day the old woman bade Antoine go into the forest and collect en… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the old woman bade Antoine go into the forest and collect enough dry leaves to make beds for herself and him. Who acts: old woman bade. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 9

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One day the old woman bade Antoine go into the forest and collect enough dry leaves to make beds for herself and him.

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**Who acts:** old woman bade · **What happens:** go, collect, make · **To what, where:** forest, enough dry leaves, beds

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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 (old woman bade), 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:pg3454:12:9
# text = One day the old woman bade Antoine go into the forest and collect enough dry leaves to make beds for herself and him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the old woman bade |  |  | the forest | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **collect** | present | the old woman bade *not said here* | enough dry leaves |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the old woman bade *not said here* | beds |  |  |  | for bade | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Material for herself=Beneficiary |

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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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