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title: Now what fruit without much scent is in season just now? — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now what fruit without much scent is in season just now? Who acts: season, fruit. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 76

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Now what fruit without much scent is in season just now?

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**Who acts:** season, fruit · **What happens:** fruit, be

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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 (season, fruit), 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:pg3454:15:76
# text = Now what fruit without much scent is in season just now?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fruit** |  | season |  |  |  | now | without much scent | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | fruit |  |  |  | in season; now |  | tree rules |

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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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