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title: To this Moti agreed, and the king arose and went out alone by a litt… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To this Moti agreed, and the king arose and went out alone by a little door at the back of the Court, and presently came back clasping something closely wrapped up in a cloth under his robe, slipped it into the little box, locked the box, and set it up where all might see. Who acts: Moti, king, all.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 67

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To this Moti agreed, and the king arose and went out alone by a little door at the back of the Court, and presently came back clasping something closely wrapped up in a cloth under his robe, slipped it into the little box, locked the box, and set it up where all might see.

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**Who acts:** Moti, king, all · **What happens:** agree, arise, go out, come back, clasp, wrap up · **To what, where:** back, something, cloth, money, little box, box

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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, king, all), 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:pg3454:15:67
# text = To this Moti agreed, and the king arose and went out alone by a little door at the back of the Court, and presently came back clasping something closely wrapped up in a cloth under his robe, slipped it into the little box, locked the box, and set it up where all might see.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	clasping	clasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	under	under	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	up	up	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
56	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	59	advmod	_	_
57	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	nsubj	_	_
58	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | this Moti |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arise** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  | the back of the Court |  | by a little door; alone, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come back** | past | this Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **clasp** | gerund | this Moti *not said here* | something |  | a cloth |  | under king's robe | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 6 | **wrap up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **slip** | past |  | money |  | the little box |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **lock** | past |  | the box |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
| 9 | **set up** | infinitive |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
| 10 | **see** | might | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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