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title: He said that he often did, but that during the last two nights he wa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He said that he often did, but that during the last two nights he was listening to a sweet song in his dreams, and could not wake, and that the voice was one that he must have known and loved in some other world long ago. Who acts: prince, that, voice. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 7

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He said that he often did, but that during the last two nights he was listening to a sweet song in his dreams, and could not wake, and that the voice was one that he must have known and loved in some other world long ago.

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**Who acts:** prince, that, voice · **What happens:** say, do, listen, not wake, be, know · **To what, where:** one, that, other world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (prince, that, voice), 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:pg3454:14:7
# text = He said that he often did, but that during the last two nights he was listening to a sweet song in his dreams, and could not wake, and that the voice was one that he must have known and loved in some other world long ago.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux	_	_
41	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	det	_	_
46	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
49	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | past · progressive | that |  |  |  |  | to a sweet song in prince's dreams | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **wake** | could | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the voice | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | must · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 7 | **love** | participle |  |  |  | some other world |  | ago *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **dream** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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