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title: That day twelvemonth the piece of burned wood came ashore in Trafras… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That day twelvemonth the piece of burned wood came ashore in Trafraska. Who acts: day twelvemonth. 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 71

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That day twelvemonth the piece of burned wood came ashore in Trafraska.

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**Who acts:** day twelvemonth · **What happens:** burn, come · **To what, where:** Trafraska

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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 (day twelvemonth), 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:pg3454:18:71
# text = That day twelvemonth the piece of burned wood came ashore in Trafraska.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Trafraska	Trafraska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | that day twelvemonth |  |  | Trafraska |  | ashore *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trafraska=Location |

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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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