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title: But all this took a long time, and meanwhile the Shifty Lad got down… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But all this took a long time, and meanwhile the Shifty Lad got down from the loft, and searched the house till he found the chest with the gold and silver in it, concealed behind a load of straw and covered with loaves of bread and a great cheese. Who acts: this, Shifty Lad, Lad. A sentence of «The
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 10

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But all this took a long time, and meanwhile the Shifty Lad got down from the loft, and searched the house till he found the chest with the gold and silver in it, concealed behind a load of straw and covered with loaves of bread and a great cheese.

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**Who acts:** this, Shifty Lad, Lad · **What happens:** take, get down, search, find, conceal, cover · **To what, where:** loft, house, chest, load

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Shifty Lad, Lad), 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:pg3454:2:10
# text = But all this took a long time, and meanwhile the Shifty Lad got down from the loft, and searched the house till he found the chest with the gold and silver in it, concealed behind a load of straw and covered with loaves of bread and a great cheese.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	parataxis	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | this |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get down** | past | the Shifty Lad |  |  | the loft |  | down, meanwhile *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **search** | past | this *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Location |
| 4 | **find** | past | Lad | the chest |  | loft |  | with the gold and silver | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Topic |
| 5 | **conceal** | participle |  |  |  | a load of straw |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind load=Location |
| 6 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with loaves of bread and a great cheese | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with loaf=Theme |

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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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