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title: She got used to find him absent by day, and they spent a happy twelv… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She got used to find him absent by day, and they spent a happy twelvemonth together, and at last a beautiful little boy was born; and happy as she was before, she was twice as happy now, for she had her child to keep her company in the day when she couldn’t see her husband. Who acts: doors, princess
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 6

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She got used to find him absent by day, and they spent a happy twelvemonth together, and at last a beautiful little boy was born; and happy as she was before, she was twice as happy now, for she had her child to keep her company in the day when she couldn’t see her husband.

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**Who acts:** doors, princess, child · **What happens:** use, find, spend, bear, be, have · **To what, where:** princess, husband, happy twelvemonth, beautiful little boy, last, child

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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 (doors, princess, child), 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:pg3454:13:6
# text = She got used to find him absent by day, and they spent a happy twelvemonth together, and at last a beautiful little boy was born; and happy as she was before, she was twice as happy now, for she had her child to keep her company in the day when she couldn’t see her husband.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	40	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
55	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	59	mark	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | princess |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | husband |  |  |  | absent *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **spend** | past | doors *= door* | a happy twelvemonth |  |  |  | together *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelvemonth=Asset |
| 4 | **bear** | past · passive |  | a beautiful little boy |  | last |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | princess |  |  |  | now | happy, twice *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | princess | princess's child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **keep** | to-infinitive | princess's child *not said here* | princess's company |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **see** | could | princess | princess's husband |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |

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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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