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title: Then she burst into tears, and placing a beautifully wrought box in… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she burst into tears, and placing a beautifully wrought box in his pocket she went her way. Who acts: air. 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 110

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Then she burst into tears, and placing a beautifully wrought box in his pocket she went her way.

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**Who acts:** air · **What happens:** burst, place, go · **To what, where:** tears, wrought box, pocket, way

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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 (air), 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:pg3454:16:110
# text = Then she burst into tears, and placing a beautifully wrought box in his pocket she went her way.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | air |  |  | tears | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | gerund | air *not said here* | a wrought box |  | robber's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | air | air's way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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