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title: So there was no luck so far; but the next day the prince passed by a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So there was no luck so far; but the next day the prince passed by again and looked at her, and saluted her kindly, as a prince might a farmer’s daughter, and passed one; and soon the witch’s daughter passed by, and found her combing her hair, and pearls and diamonds dropping from it. Who acts: luck
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 2

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So there was no luck so far; but the next day the prince passed by again and looked at her, and saluted her kindly, as a prince might a farmer’s daughter, and passed one; and soon the witch’s daughter passed by, and found her combing her hair, and pearls and diamonds dropping from it.

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**Who acts:** luck, pearls · **What happens:** be, pass, look, salute, pass by, find · **To what, where:** next day, prince, luck, one, daughter, hair

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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 (luck, pearls), 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:pg3454:14:2
# text = So there was no luck so far; but the next day the prince passed by again and looked at her, and saluted her kindly, as a prince might a farmer’s daughter, and passed one; and soon the witch’s daughter passed by, and found her combing her hair, and pearls and diamonds dropping from it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
47	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	xcomp	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
58	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	_
61	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
62	from	from	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the next day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by again=Location |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at luck | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 4 | **salute** | past |  | luck |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 5 | **pass** | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
| 6 | **pass by** | participle |  | the witch's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | past |  | luck |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 8 | **comb** | gerund | luck *not said here* | luck's hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 9 | **drop** | gerund | pearls and diamonds |  |  | hair |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory |

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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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