--- title: The bride seemed full of interest in the houses, and asked a great m… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The bride seemed full of interest in the houses, and asked a great many questions about them, so that her new relations liked her much better than they expected, and hoped they might be good friends. Who acts: bride, new relations, relations. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, new relations, relations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:19:60 # text = The bride seemed full of interest in the houses, and asked a great many questions about them, so that her new relations liked her much better than they expected, and hoped they might be good friends. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 25 mark _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 relations relation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 ccomp _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 expected expect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 hoped hope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | the bride | | | | | full *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | a great many questions | | | | about questions *= question* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about they=Topic | | 3 | **like** | past | bride's new relations | bride | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | | 4 | **expect** | past | relations *= relation* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hope** | past | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is a** | might | relations *= relation* | good friends | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/19/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/19/61/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/19/)