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title: But her husband only told her that she might buy houses in some othe… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But her husband only told her that she might buy houses in some other part of the town, for she could not have those, as he had long since made a gift of them to his brother, who had lived there for many years past. Who acts: husband, bride, brother. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 62

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But her husband only told her that she might buy houses in some other part of the town, for she could not have those, as he had long since made a gift of them to his brother, who had lived there for many years past.

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**Who acts:** husband, bride, brother · **What happens:** tell, buy, not have, have, make, live · **To what, where:** bride, houses, other part, those, gift, relations · **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 (husband, bride, brother), 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:pg3454:19:62
# text = But her husband only told her that she might buy houses in some other part of the town, for she could not have those, as he had long since made a gift of them to his brother, who had lived there for many years past.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
31	since	since	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
48	past	past	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | bride's husband |  | bride |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** *not said to happen* | might | bride | houses |  | some other part of the town |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | could | bride | those |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past | husband *not said here* | a gift of relations |  |  |  | to husband's brother; long, since *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gift=Product |
| 6 | **live** | past · perfect | husband's brother |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **gift** |  |  | relations *= relation* |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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