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title: So they all persuaded her to do that, and she promised she would; an… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they all persuaded her to do that, and she promised she would; and after eight days she felt so great a longing to see her husband again that she made the wish the same night, and when she woke three hours after, she was in her husband’s palace, and he himself was watching over her. Who acts: sis
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 29

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So they all persuaded her to do that, and she promised she would; and after eight days she felt so great a longing to see her husband again that she made the wish the same night, and when she woke three hours after, she was in her husband’s palace, and he himself was watching over her.

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**Who acts:** sisters, mother, husband · **What happens:** persuade, do, promise, feel, see, make · **To what, where:** mother, that, longing, husband, wish, palace

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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 (sisters, mother, husband), 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:pg3454:13:29
# text = So they all persuaded her to do that, and she promised she would; and after eight days she felt so great a longing to see her husband again that she made the wish the same night, and when she woke three hours after, she was in her husband’s palace, and he himself was watching over her.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	after	after	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’s	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	57	nmod:unmarked	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
61	over	over	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | sisters *= sister* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | past | mother | a longing |  |  | day | great *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | mother's husband |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | past | mother | the wish |  |  | night |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Product |
| 7 | **wake** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | past | mother |  |  | mother's husband's palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **watch** | past · progressive | husband |  |  |  |  | over mother | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |

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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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