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title: But he knew one far more surprising than the rest, which had in it t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he knew one far more surprising than the rest, which had in it the power to set everything dead or alive dancing. Who acts: Maurice, rest. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 5

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But he knew one far more surprising than the rest, which had in it the power to set everything dead or alive dancing.

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**Who acts:** Maurice, rest · **What happens:** know, have, set · **To what, where:** one, power, rest, everything

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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 (Maurice, rest), 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:pg3454:18:5
# text = But he knew one far more surprising than the rest, which had in it the power to set everything dead or alive dancing.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Maurice | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | the rest | the power |  | rest |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | the rest *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme dancing=Destination |

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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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