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title: When the dreams had sung their song they skipped away, and Nukku Mat… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the dreams had sung their song they skipped away, and Nukku Matti carried Lasse back to the boat. Who acts: dreams, Nukku. 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 9

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When the dreams had sung their song they skipped away, and Nukku Matti carried Lasse back to the boat.

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**Who acts:** dreams, Nukku · **What happens:** sing, skip away, carry back · **To what, where:** dreams, Lasse, boat

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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 (dreams, Nukku), 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:pg3454:15:9
# text = When the dreams had sung their song they skipped away, and Nukku Matti carried Lasse back to the boat.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Nukku	Nukku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Matti	Matti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive |  | the dreams |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary song=Theme |
| 2 | **skip away** | past | dreams *= dream* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry back** | past | Nukku | Lasse |  | the boat |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lasse=Theme to boat=Destination |
| 4 | **sing** |  | dreams *= dream* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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