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title: Not a fair, nor a wedding, nor a feast in the seven parishes round,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a fair, nor a wedding, nor a feast in the seven parishes round, was counted worth the speaking of without ‘blind Maurice and his pipes.’ 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 8

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Not a fair, nor a wedding, nor a feast in the seven parishes round, was counted worth the speaking of without ‘blind Maurice and his pipes.’

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**What happens:** count, speak · **To what, where:** fair wedding, blind Maurice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg3454:18:8
# text = Not a fair, nor a wedding, nor a feast in the seven parishes round, was counted worth the speaking of without ‘blind Maurice and his pipes.’
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	parishes	parish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	worth	worth	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	speaking	speaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past · passive |  | a fair wedding |  |  |  | worth the speaking of blind Maurice and Maurice's pipes | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** |  |  | blind Maurice and Maurice's pipes |  |  |  |  | nom speaking «communication transitive»: of=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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