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title: But hardly was the time of mourning over, than the mother was attack… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But hardly was the time of mourning over, than the mother was attacked by a disease which was common in that country. Who acts: time, disease. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 47

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But hardly was the time of mourning over, than the mother was attacked by a disease which was common in that country.

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**Who acts:** time, disease · **What happens:** be, attack · **To what, where:** mother, country

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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 (time, disease), 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:pg3454:20:47
# text = But hardly was the time of mourning over, than the mother was attacked by a disease which was common in that country.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the time |  |  |  |  | of mourning; hardly, over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** | past · passive | a disease | the mother |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | a disease |  |  | that country |  | common *property* | tree rules |

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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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