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title: Nothing could waken him, not even the sound of sweetest music, nor t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing could waken him, not even the sound of sweetest music, nor the touch of a lady who bent over him. Who acts: Nothing, lady. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 102

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Nothing could waken him, not even the sound of sweetest music, nor the touch of a lady who bent over him.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, lady · **What happens:** waken, bend, touch · **To what, where:** robber, lady

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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 (Nothing, lady), 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:pg3454:16:102
# text = Nothing could waken him, not even the sound of sweetest music, nor the touch of a lady who bent over him.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waken** | could | Nothing | robber |  |  |  | the sound of sweetest music *obl*; the touch of a lady *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **bend** | past | a lady |  |  |  |  | over robber | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |
| 3 | **touch** |  |  | a lady |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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