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title: Some of the shells got broken, some remained whole, and when all wer… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the shells got broken, some remained whole, and when all were ready Lasse had twelve boats. Who acts: some, ready Lasse. 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 clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 52

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Some of the shells got broken, some remained whole, and when all were ready Lasse had twelve boats.

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**Who acts:** some, ready Lasse · **What happens:** break, remain, be, have · **To what, where:** Some, ready Lasse, twelve boats

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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 (some, ready Lasse), 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:pg3454:14:52
# text = Some of the shells got broken, some remained whole, and when all were ready Lasse had twelve boats.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past · passive |  | Some |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **remain** | past | some |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | all ready Lasse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | all ready Lasse | twelve boats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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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