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title: Not far away was a house which Little Lasse had seen before; near th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not far away was a house which Little Lasse had seen before; near the house there was a garden, and in the garden a pea bed with long pea shells. Who acts: Little. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 135

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Not far away was a house which Little Lasse had seen before; near the house there was a garden, and in the garden a pea bed with long pea shells.

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**Who acts:** Little · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** house, garden

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little), 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:pg3454:14:135
# text = Not far away was a house which Little Lasse had seen before; near the house there was a garden, and in the garden a pea bed with long pea shells.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a house and the garden |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | Little | a house and the garden |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Little *not said here* | a garden |  | the house |  |  | tree rules |

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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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