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title: The judge could hardly conceal a smile at the story, and inquired if… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The judge could hardly conceal a smile at the story, and inquired if the wife was dead before the farmer left the house, and received for answer that he was in such a hurry for justice to be done that he had not waited to see. Who acts: judge, wife, farmer. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by An
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 27

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The judge could hardly conceal a smile at the story, and inquired if the wife was dead before the farmer left the house, and received for answer that he was in such a hurry for justice to be done that he had not waited to see.

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**Who acts:** judge, wife, farmer · **What happens:** conceal, inquire, be, leave, receive, do · **To what, where:** smile, story, house, hurry

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge, wife, farmer), 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:pg3454:20:27
# text = The judge could hardly conceal a smile at the story, and inquired if the wife was dead before the farmer left the house, and received for answer that he was in such a hurry for justice to be done that he had not waited to see.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	36	det:predet	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | could | the judge | a smile |  | the story |  | hardly *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent smile=Patient at story=Location |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the wife |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past | the farmer | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 5 | **receive** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | farmer |  |  | such hurry |  | for justice | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 8 | **not** **wait** | past · perfect | farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **see** | to-infinitive | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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