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title: The servants and conceited folk at the big house began to take notic… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The servants and conceited folk at the big house began to take notice of the beautiful young woman at the lodge, and to annoy her with their impudence. Who acts: servants. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 74

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The servants and conceited folk at the big house began to take notice of the beautiful young woman at the lodge, and to annoy her with their impudence.

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** begin, take, annoy, notice · **To what, where:** notice, lodge, woman, beautiful young woman

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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 (servants), 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:pg3454:13:74
# text = The servants and conceited folk at the big house began to take notice of the beautiful young woman at the lodge, and to annoy her with their impudence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	conceited	conceited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	annoy	annoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	impudence	impudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the servants and conceited folk at the big house |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | the servants and conceited folk at the big house *not said here* | notice of the beautiful young woman |  | the lodge |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent notice=Theme at lodge=Asset |
| 3 | **annoy** | to-infinitive | the servants and conceited folk at the big house *not said here* | woman |  |  |  | with servants's impudence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 4 | **notice** |  |  | the beautiful young woman |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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