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title: Most people would have considered it a wretched place, and turned th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Most people would have considered it a wretched place, and turned their backs on it as soon as they could, but this lady saw that by spending some money the houses could be made as splendid as they were originally intended to be, and she instantly resolved to get them for herself. Who acts: Most peo
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 58

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Most people would have considered it a wretched place, and turned their backs on it as soon as they could, but this lady saw that by spending some money the houses could be made as splendid as they were originally intended to be, and she instantly resolved to get them for herself.

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**Who acts:** Most people, lady · **What happens:** consider, turn, see, spend, make, intend · **To what, where:** dwelling, backs, money, people · **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 (Most people, lady), 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:pg3454:19:58
# text = Most people would have considered it a wretched place, and turned their backs on it as soon as they could, but this lady saw that by spending some money the houses could be made as splendid as they were originally intended to be, and she instantly resolved to get them for herself.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | would · perfect | Most people | dwelling |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Most people *not said here* | people's backs |  | dwelling |  | soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | this lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spend** | gerund |  | some money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | could · passive |  |  |  |  |  | splendid *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 6 | **intend** | past · passive |  | people |  |  |  | originally *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **resolve** | past | lady |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **get** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | people |  |  |  | for lady | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme for herself=Source |

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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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