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title: Ah! how sorry Little Lasse was now that he had been disobedient and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! how sorry Little Lasse was now that he had been disobedient and got into the boat, when father and mother had so often forbidden him to do so! Who acts: sorry Little Lasse, father. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 80

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Ah! how sorry Little Lasse was now that he had been disobedient and got into the boat, when father and mother had so often forbidden him to do so!

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**Who acts:** sorry Little Lasse, father · **What happens:** be, get, have, forbid, do · **To what, where:** boat, Lasse

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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 (sorry Little Lasse, father), 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:pg3454:14:80
# text = Ah! how sorry Little Lasse was now that he had been disobedient and got into the boat, when father and mother had so often forbidden him to do so!
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | sorry Little Lasse |  |  |  | now | disobedient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | sorry Little Lasse *not said here* |  |  | the boat |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | past | father and mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forbid** | participle | father and mother *not said here* | Lasse |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | father and mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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