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title: Here is was that Maurice’s music had brought from all parts a great… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here is was that Maurice’s music had brought from all parts a great gathering of the young men and the young women; for ‘twas not every day the strand of Trafraska was stirred up by the voice of a bagpipe. Who acts: voice. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, pa
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 13

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Here is was that Maurice’s music had brought from all parts a great gathering of the young men and the young women; for ‘twas not every day the strand of Trafraska was stirred up by the voice of a bagpipe.

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**Who acts:** voice · **What happens:** be, bring, not stir up · **To what, where:** music, parts, strand

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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:pg3454:18:13
# text = Here is was that Maurice’s music had brought from all parts a great gathering of the young men and the young women; for ‘twas not every day the strand of Trafraska was stirred up by the voice of a bagpipe.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Trafraska	Trafraska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | Maurice's music |  | all parts |  | for twas | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from part=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **stir up** | past · passive | the voice of a bagpipe | the strand of Trafraska |  |  | day |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition 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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