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title: Poor woman, she did not live to get as much as one of them; for what… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor woman, she did not live to get as much as one of them; for what through the loss of Maurice, and the fear of eating her own grandchildren, she died in three weeks after the dance. Who acts: woman, fear. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 76

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Poor woman, she did not live to get as much as one of them; for what through the loss of Maurice, and the fear of eating her own grandchildren, she died in three weeks after the dance.

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**Who acts:** woman, fear · **What happens:** not live, get, eat, die · **To what, where:** Poor woman, much, own grandchildren

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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 (woman, fear), 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:pg3454:18:76
# text = Poor woman, she did not live to get as much as one of them; for what through the loss of Maurice, and the fear of eating her own grandchildren, she died in three weeks after the dance.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **live** | past · do-support | woman | Poor woman and the fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | much |  |  |  | as one of people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent much=Beneficiary what=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | the fear *not said here* | woman's own grandchildren |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Patient |
| 4 | **die** | past | woman |  |  |  | after the dance; week |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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