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title: From quarrelling they went on to fighting, and fought so hard that b… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From quarrelling they went on to fighting, and fought so hard that by and bye they were all stretched dead on the floor. Who acts: food, bye. 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 96

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From quarrelling they went on to fighting, and fought so hard that by and bye they were all stretched dead on the floor.

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**Who acts:** food, bye · **What happens:** quarrell, go on, fight, stretch · **To what, where:** food, floor

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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 (food, bye), 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:pg3454:16:96
# text = From quarrelling they went on to fighting, and fought so hard that by and bye they were all stretched dead on the floor.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
16	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrell** | gerund | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past | food |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** | past | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stretch** | past · passive | bye | food |  | the floor |  | all, dead *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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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