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title: For although it was daylight, old Nukku Matti was sitting on the sho… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For although it was daylight, old Nukku Matti was sitting on the shores of the ‘Land of Nod,’ and was fishing for little children with his long fishing rod. Who acts: sleep, old Nukku. 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 86

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For although it was daylight, old Nukku Matti was sitting on the shores of the ‘Land of Nod,’ and was fishing for little children with his long fishing rod.

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**Who acts:** sleep, old Nukku · **What happens:** be, sit, fish · **To what, where:** shores

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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 (sleep, old Nukku), 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:pg3454:14:86
# text = For although it was daylight, old Nukku Matti was sitting on the shores of the ‘Land of Nod,’ and was fishing for little children with his long fishing rod.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Nukku	Nukku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Matti	Matti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Nod	Nod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sleep |  |  |  |  | for daylight | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | old Nukku |  |  | the shores of the Land of Nod |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 3 | **fish** | past · progressive | old Nukku *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for little children; with Lasse's long fishing rod | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for child=Theme |

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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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