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title: If she was to live a hundred years she’d never forget how she wakene… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If she was to live a hundred years she’d never forget how she wakened next morning, and found her husband looking down on her with misery and anger in his face. Who acts: joy, hundred years. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 37

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If she was to live a hundred years she’d never forget how she wakened next morning, and found her husband looking down on her with misery and anger in his face.

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**Who acts:** joy, hundred years · **What happens:** be, have, not forget, waken, find, look down · **To what, where:** hundred years, husband · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, hundred years), 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:pg3454:13:37
# text = If she was to live a hundred years she’d never forget how she wakened next morning, and found her husband looking down on her with misery and anger in his face.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wakened	waken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
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	20	obj	_	_
23	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | joy |  |  |  | year | live *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | joy | hundred years *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | infinitive | hundred years *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **waken** | past | joy |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **find** | past | joy *not said here* | joy's husband |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic |
| 6 | **look down** | gerund | joy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in husband's face; on joy's misery and anger; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on misery=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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