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title: But Little Lasse did not trouble his head with such things; he gathe… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Little Lasse did not trouble his head with such things; he gathered together his boats and walked up the shore back to the house. Who acts: Little Lasse, Lasse. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 20

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But Little Lasse did not trouble his head with such things; he gathered together his boats and walked up the shore back to the house.

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**Who acts:** Little Lasse, Lasse · **What happens:** do, gather, walk up · **To what, where:** trouble, boats, shore

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse, Lasse), 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:pg3454:15:20
# text = But Little Lasse did not trouble his head with such things; he gathered together his boats and walked up the shore back to the house.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Little Lasse | trouble |  |  |  | with such things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gather** | past | Lasse | Lasse's boats |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 3 | **walk up** | past | Lasse *not said here* | the shore |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Trajectory |

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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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