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title: The next night she got a few drops of the sleepy posset that she sav… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next night she got a few drops of the sleepy posset that she saved the evening before put into her husband’s night drink, and that made him sleep sound enough. Who acts: joy, that. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 33

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The next night she got a few drops of the sleepy posset that she saved the evening before put into her husband’s night drink, and that made him sleep sound enough.

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**Who acts:** joy, that · **What happens:** get, save, put, make · **To what, where:** few drops, sleepy posset, evening, night drink, sleep sound, husband

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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 (joy, that), 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:pg3454:13:33
# text = The next night she got a few drops of the sleepy posset that she saved the evening before put into her husband’s night drink, and that made him sleep sound enough.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	posset	posset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **get** | past | joy | a few drops of the sleepy posset |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus |
| 2 | **save** | past | joy | the sleepy posset *not said here* |  |  | evening |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent posset=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | participle |  | the evening *not said here* |  | joy's husband's night drink |  | before *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | that | sleep sound | husband |  |  | enough *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary sound=Product |

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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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