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title: He heard the low words which Little Lasse said to God, and he immedi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He heard the low words which Little Lasse said to God, and he immediately drew the boat to himself and laid Little Lasse to sleep on a bed of rose leaves. Who acts: Lasse, Little. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 87

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He heard the low words which Little Lasse said to God, and he immediately drew the boat to himself and laid Little Lasse to sleep on a bed of rose leaves.

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**Who acts:** Lasse, Little · **What happens:** hear, say, draw, lay, sleep · **To what, where:** low words, God, boat, Lasse, Little Lasse, bed · **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 (Lasse, Little), 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:pg3454:14:87
# text = He heard the low words which Little Lasse said to God, and he immediately drew the boat to himself and laid Little Lasse to sleep on a bed of rose leaves.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Lasse | the low words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little | the low words | God |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to god=Recipient |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Lasse | the boat | Lasse |  |  | immediately *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme to himself=Destination |
| 4 | **lay** | past | Lasse *not said here* | Little Lasse |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lasse=Result |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Lasse *not said here* |  |  | a bed of rose leaves |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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