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title: In this way she earned more than she needed for herself, and soon wa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this way she earned more than she needed for herself, and soon was able to get another mortar and cooking pot in exchange for her corn. Who acts: many. 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 70

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In this way she earned more than she needed for herself, and soon was able to get another mortar and cooking pot in exchange for her corn.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** earn, need, be, get, cook · **To what, where:** more, way, mortar, pot

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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 (many), 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:pg3454:20:70
# text = In this way she earned more than she needed for herself, and soon was able to get another mortar and cooking pot in exchange for her corn.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | past | many | more |  | this way |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | many |  |  |  |  | for many | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | past | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | many *not said here* | another mortar |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mortar=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cook** | gerund | many *not said here* | pot |  |  |  | in exchange for many's corn | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient in exchange=Instrument |

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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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