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title: But Little Lasse remained in Europe, and threw small stones out into… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Little Lasse remained in Europe, and threw small stones out into the great sea. Who acts: Little 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 61

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But Little Lasse remained in Europe, and threw small stones out into the great sea.

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**Who acts:** Little Lasse · **What happens:** remain, throw out · **To what, where:** Europe, small stones, great sea

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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 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:pg3454:14:61
# text = But Little Lasse remained in Europe, and threw small stones out into the great sea.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Little Lasse |  |  | Europe |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location |
| 2 | **throw out** | past | Little Lasse *not said here* | small stones |  |  |  | into the great sea *result*; out *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stone=Theme into sea=Result |

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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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