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title: But the woman had been fond of the Black Rogue, thief though he was,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the woman had been fond of the Black Rogue, thief though he was, and she shrank from the Shifty Lad in horror, and set the people after him, and he had to fly to another part of the country where none knew of his doings. Who acts: woman, Rogue, none. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 85

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But the woman had been fond of the Black Rogue, thief though he was, and she shrank from the Shifty Lad in horror, and set the people after him, and he had to fly to another part of the country where none knew of his doings.

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**Who acts:** woman, Rogue, none · **What happens:** be, shrink, set, have, fly, know · **To what, where:** people

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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 (woman, Rogue, none), 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:pg3454:2:85
# text = But the woman had been fond of the Black Rogue, thief though he was, and she shrank from the Shifty Lad in horror, and set the people after him, and he had to fly to another part of the country where none knew of his doings.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
46	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	47	nsubj	_	_
47	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the woman |  |  |  |  | of the Black Rogue; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shrink** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | in horror; from the Shifty Lad | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from lad=Stimulus |
| 3 | **set** | past | woman *not said here* | the people |  |  | after Rogue |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient people=Result |
| 4 | **have** | past | Rogue |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Rogue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to another part of the country *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to part=Result |
| 6 | **know** | past | none |  |  |  |  | of Rogue's doings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of doing=Stimulus |

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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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