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title: If one judge would not give her the houses another should, and so ti… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If one judge would not give her the houses another should, and so time after time the case was tried over again, till at last it came before the highest judge of all, in the city of Evora. Who acts: one judge, case. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 69

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If one judge would not give her the houses another should, and so time after time the case was tried over again, till at last it came before the highest judge of all, in the city of Evora.

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**Who acts:** one judge, case · **What happens:** not give, try over, come · **To what, where:** houses, lady, case, city

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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 (one judge, case), 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:pg3454:19:69
# text = If one judge would not give her the houses another should, and so time after time the case was tried over again, till at last it came before the highest judge of all, in the city of Evora.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	till	till	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Evora	Evora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | would | one judge | the houses | lady |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient house=Theme |
| 2 | **try over** | past · passive |  | the case |  |  | again; time |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past | case |  |  | the city of Evora | before the highest judge of all |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before judge=Location |

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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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