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title: ‘There is not much more to tell,’ replied the landlady, for she sudd… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘There is not much more to tell,’ replied the landlady, for she suddenly remembered that she must prepare supper for the hungry men who always stopped at the inn on market days, before starting for home, ‘but one fine morning they both went to the little church on top of the hill, and were married. 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 17

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‘There is not much more to tell,’ replied the landlady, for she suddenly remembered that she must prepare supper for the hungry men who always stopped at the inn on market days, before starting for home, ‘but one fine morning they both went to the little church on top of the hill, and were married.

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**Who acts:** more, Daughter, hungry men, keeper · **What happens:** be, tell, reply, remember, prepare, stop · **To what, where:** landlady, supper, inn, little church · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, Daughter, hungry men, keeper), 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:pg3454:19:17
# text = ‘There is not much more to tell,’ replied the landlady, for she suddenly remembered that she must prepare supper for the hungry men who always stopped at the inn on market days, before starting for home, ‘but one fine morning they both went to the little church on top of the hill, and were married.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	landlady	landlady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	_
30	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
46	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	advmod	_	_
50	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | more |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the landlady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remember** | past | Daughter |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **prepare** | must | Daughter | supper |  |  |  | for the hungry men | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supper=Product for man=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **stop** | past | the hungry men |  |  | the inn | day | always *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location |
| 7 | **start** | gerund | Daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for home | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **go** | past | keeper |  |  | the little church on top of the hill | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **marry** | past · passive | keeper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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