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title: After inquiring of everyone who was likely to know, Moti seized the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After inquiring of everyone who was likely to know, Moti seized the cord and his big staff and sallied out to look for him. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 87

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After inquiring of everyone who was likely to know, Moti seized the cord and his big staff and sallied out to look for him.

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**Who acts:** Moti · **What happens:** inquire, be, know, seize, sally out, look · **To what, where:** cord

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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:pg3454:15:87
# text = After inquiring of everyone who was likely to know, Moti seized the cord and his big staff and sallied out to look for him.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sallied	sally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | gerund | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of everyone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of everyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **seize** | past | Moti | the cord and Moti's big staff |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme |
| 5 | **sally out** | past | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Moti | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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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