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title: So the armies on both sides went rejoicing home, and this was really… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the armies on both sides went rejoicing home, and this was really the making of the fortune of clumsy Moti, who lived long and contrived always to be looked up to as a fountain of wisdom, valour, and discretion by all except his relations, who could never understand what he had done to be conside
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 54

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So the armies on both sides went rejoicing home, and this was really the making of the fortune of clumsy Moti, who lived long and contrived always to be looked up to as a fountain of wisdom, valour, and discretion by all except his relations, who could never understand what he had done to be considered so much wiser than anyone else.

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**Who acts:** armies, this, fortune, relations, Moti · **What happens:** go, rejoice, be, live, contrive, look up · **To what, where:** making, discretion · **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 (armies, this, fortune, relations), 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:pg3454:16:54
# text = So the armies on both sides went rejoicing home, and this was really the making of the fortune of clumsy Moti, who lived long and contrived always to be looked up to as a fountain of wisdom, valour, and discretion by all except his relations, who could never understand what he had done to be considered so much wiser than anyone else.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	xcomp	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	discretion	discretion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	nmod	_	_
47	except	except	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	_
55	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	58	obj	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	54	ccomp	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
60	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	advcl	_	_
62	so	so	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	much	much	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	61	xcomp	_	_
65	than	than	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	64	obl	_	_
67	else	else	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the armies on both sides |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rejoice** | gerund | the armies on both sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the making |  |  |  | of the fortune of clumsy Moti | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past | the fortune of clumsy Moti |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **contrive** | past | the fortune of clumsy Moti *not said here* | discretion by all except Moti's relations |  |  |  | always *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **look up** | to-infinitive · passive | the fortune of clumsy Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a fountain of wisdom and valour | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
| 7 | **not** **understand** | could | Moti's relations |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **do** | past · perfect | Moti |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 9 | **consider** | to-infinitive · passive | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» |

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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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