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title: Well, the mother and sisters consulted a wise woman that used to bri… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, the mother and sisters consulted a wise woman that used to bring eggs to the castle, for they had great faith in her wisdom. Who acts: mother, wise woman, sisters. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 27

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Well, the mother and sisters consulted a wise woman that used to bring eggs to the castle, for they had great faith in her wisdom.

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**Who acts:** mother, wise woman, sisters · **What happens:** consult, use, bring, have · **To what, where:** wise woman, eggs, castle, great faith, wisdom

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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 (mother, wise woman, sisters), 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:pg3454:13:27
# text = Well, the mother and sisters consulted a wise woman that used to bring eggs to the castle, for they had great faith in her wisdom.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | past | the mother and sisters | a wise woman |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | a wise woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a wise woman *not said here* | eggs |  | the castle |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | sisters *= sister* | great faith |  | mother's wisdom |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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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