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title: If the son had no sleep that night, no more had the father, and as s… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If the son had no sleep that night, no more had the father, and as soon as the sun rose, he sent a messenger into the great city with orders to bring back the younger brother. Who acts: son, more, sun. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, with its depen
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 34

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If the son had no sleep that night, no more had the father, and as soon as the sun rose, he sent a messenger into the great city with orders to bring back the younger brother.

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**Who acts:** son, more, sun · **What happens:** have, rise, send, bring back · **To what, where:** sleep, father, messenger, great city, younger brother

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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 (son, more, sun), 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:pg3454:19:34
# text = If the son had no sleep that night, no more had the father, and as soon as the sun rose, he sent a messenger into the great city with orders to bring back the younger brother.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the son | no sleep |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | no more | the father |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 3 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | past | sun | a messenger |  | the great city with orders |  | soon *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 5 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* |  | the younger brother |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=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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