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title: In one way and another he got along very well until a hot evening wh… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In one way and another he got along very well until a hot evening when he came to a certain city where he entered the travellers’ ‘serai’ or inn to pass the night. Who acts: Moti. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 44

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In one way and another he got along very well until a hot evening when he came to a certain city where he entered the travellers’ ‘serai’ or inn to pass the night.

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**Who acts:** Moti · **What happens:** get along, come, enter, inn, pass · **To what, where:** one way, certain city, serai

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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 (Moti), 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:pg3454:15:44
# text = In one way and another he got along very well until a hot evening when he came to a certain city where he entered the travellers’ ‘serai’ or inn to pass the night.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	along	along	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
11	until	until	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	serai	serai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	inn	inn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get along** | past | Moti | one way *not said here* |  |  | evening | along, well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | past | Moti |  |  | a certain city |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **enter** | past | Moti | the travellers's serai |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme serai=Destination |
| 4 | **inn** | infinitive | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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