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title: So he entered and found food and wine on the table, but no man, for… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he entered and found food and wine on the table, but no man, for the house belonged to some robbers, who were still away at their wicked business. Who acts: son, man, robbers. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 77

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So he entered and found food and wine on the table, but no man, for the house belonged to some robbers, who were still away at their wicked business.

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**Who acts:** son, man, robbers · **What happens:** enter, find, belong, be · **To what, where:** food, table, wicked business

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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 (son, man, robbers), 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:pg3454:16:77
# text = So he entered and found food and wine on the table, but no man, for the house belonged to some robbers, who were still away at their wicked business.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | son *not said here* | food and wine |  | the table |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 3 | **belong** | past | no man and the house |  |  |  |  | to some robbers | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | some robbers |  |  | men's wicked business | still | away *property* | tree rules |

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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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