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title: ‘I never spend Hallowe’en yet without cracking a nut’; and he cracke… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I never spend Hallowe’en yet without cracking a nut’; and he cracked one. Who acts: I, Hallowe’en. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 5

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‘I never spend Hallowe’en yet without cracking a nut’; and he cracked one.

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**Who acts:** I, Hallowe’en · **What happens:** not spend, crack · **To what, where:** Hallowe’en, nut, one

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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 (I, Hallowe’en), 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:pg3454:2:5
# text = ‘I never spend Hallowe’en yet without cracking a nut’; and he cracked one.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Hallowe’en	Hallowe'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spend** | present | I | Hallowe’en |  |  | yet |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hallowe'en=Asset |
| 2 | **crack** | gerund | I *not said here* | a nut |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme |
| 3 | **crack** | past | Hallowe’en *= hallowe'en* | one |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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