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title: Next day he set out for the church, but the old woman of the cottage… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day he set out for the church, but the old woman of the cottage had gone before him, and had stuck an enchanted stick called ‘the spike of hurt’ in a crack of the door, so that he would brush against it as he stepped across the threshold. Who acts: robber, old woman, enchanted stick. A sentence
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 100

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Next day he set out for the church, but the old woman of the cottage had gone before him, and had stuck an enchanted stick called ‘the spike of hurt’ in a crack of the door, so that he would brush against it as he stepped across the threshold.

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**Who acts:** robber, old woman, enchanted stick · **What happens:** set out, go, stick, enchant, call, hurt · **To what, where:** enchanted stick, spike, crack, church, threshold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, old woman, enchanted stick), 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:pg3454:16:100
# text = Next day he set out for the church, but the old woman of the cottage had gone before him, and had stuck an enchanted stick called ‘the spike of hurt’ in a crack of the door, so that he would brush against it as he stepped across the threshold.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	46	mark	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
47	against	against	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
52	across	across	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | robber |  |  |  | day | for the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the old woman of the cottage |  |  |  | before robber |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
| 3 | **stick** | past · perfect |  | a enchanted stick |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 4 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **call** | participle | a enchanted stick *not said here* | the spike |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hurt** | participle |  | the spike *not said here* |  | a crack of the door |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **brush** | would | robber |  |  | church |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against it=Destination |
| 8 | **step** | past | robber |  |  | the threshold |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across threshold=Trajectory |

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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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