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title: The lights turned out to have been placed there by a farmer, who had… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lights turned out to have been placed there by a farmer, who had planned to have a particularly good supper as it was his wife’s birthday, and bade the rich man enter and sit down, while he himself took the horse to the stable. Who acts: lights, farmer, supper, bade. A sentence of «The Lilac Fai
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 73

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The lights turned out to have been placed there by a farmer, who had planned to have a particularly good supper as it was his wife’s birthday, and bade the rich man enter and sit down, while he himself took the horse to the stable.

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**Who acts:** lights, farmer, supper, bade, man · **What happens:** turn out, place, plan, have, be, enter · **To what, where:** farmer, good supper, horse, stable

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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 (lights, farmer, supper, bade), 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:pg3454:19:73
# text = The lights turned out to have been placed there by a farmer, who had planned to have a particularly good supper as it was his wife’s birthday, and bade the rich man enter and sit down, while he himself took the horse to the stable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	42	nmod:unmarked	_	_
44	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | past | the lights |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | a farmer |  |  | there |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plan** | past · perfect · passive |  | a farmer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a good supper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | supper |  |  |  |  | as farmer's wife's birthday | tree rules |
| 6 | **enter** | infinitive | bade |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sit down** | infinitive | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | past | man | the horse |  | the stable |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to stable=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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