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title: When the third child was born she would hardly allow a window or a d… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the third child was born she would hardly allow a window or a door to be left open for a moment; but she wasn’t the nearer to keep the child to herself. Who acts: greyhound, window. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 16

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When the third child was born she would hardly allow a window or a door to be left open for a moment; but she wasn’t the nearer to keep the child to herself.

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**Who acts:** greyhound, window · **What happens:** bear, allow, leave, not be, keep · **To what, where:** third child, window, child, greyhound

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greyhound, window), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:1136`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:13:16
# text = When the third child was born she would hardly allow a window or a door to be left open for a moment; but she wasn’t the nearer to keep the child to herself.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the third child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **allow** | would | greyhound | a window or a door |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer window=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | a window or a door *not said here* |  |  |  | moment | open *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | greyhound |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | greyhound *not said here* | the child | greyhound |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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