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title: As he passed the Wise Man he contrived not only to steal the bottle… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he passed the Wise Man he contrived not only to steal the bottle but to place two black dots on his face, and one on the faces of twenty other men. Who acts: Lad. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 101

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As he passed the Wise Man he contrived not only to steal the bottle but to place two black dots on his face, and one on the faces of twenty other men.

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**Who acts:** Lad · **What happens:** pass, contrive, not steal · **To what, where:** Wise Man, bottle

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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 (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:pg3454:2:101
# text = As he passed the Wise Man he contrived not only to steal the bottle but to place two black dots on his face, and one on the faces of twenty other men.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Lad | the Wise Man |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Trajectory |
| 2 | **contrive** | past | Lad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **steal** | to-infinitive | Lad *not said here* | the bottle |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bottle=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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