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title: It was a little dream-boy, so little, so little, that he was less th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a little dream-boy, so little, so little, that he was less than Lasse himself; he had blue eyes and fair hair, a red cap with a silver band, and white coat with pearls on the collar. Who acts: lonesome, boy. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, w
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 89

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It was a little dream-boy, so little, so little, that he was less than Lasse himself; he had blue eyes and fair hair, a red cap with a silver band, and white coat with pearls on the collar.

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**Who acts:** lonesome, boy · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** little dream boy, blue eyes

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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 (lonesome, boy), 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:pg3454:14:89
# text = It was a little dream-boy, so little, so little, that he was less than Lasse himself; he had blue eyes and fair hair, a red cap with a silver band, and white coat with pearls on the collar.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lonesome | a little dream boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | than Lasse  Lasse; less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | boy | blue eyes  a red cap with a silver band and fair hair |  |  |  | white coat with pearls on the collar *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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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