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title: Unluckily someone else thought so too, and this was her brother’s wi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unluckily someone else thought so too, and this was her brother’s wife, who had heard all about the pumpkin tree, and sent her slave with a handful of grain to buy her a pumpkin. Who acts: someone, this, wife. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, with i
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 72

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Unluckily someone else thought so too, and this was her brother’s wife, who had heard all about the pumpkin tree, and sent her slave with a handful of grain to buy her a pumpkin.

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**Who acts:** someone, this, wife · **What happens:** think, be, hear, send, buy · **To what, where:** pumpkin tree, slave, pumpkin, many

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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 (someone, this, wife), 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:pg3454:20:72
# text = Unluckily someone else thought so too, and this was her brother’s wife, who had heard all about the pumpkin tree, and sent her slave with a handful of grain to buy her a pumpkin.
1	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | someone |  |  |  |  | unluckily *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | 's many's brother | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | many's brother's wife | the pumpkin tree |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 4 | **send** | past | someone *not said here* | many's slave |  |  |  | with a handful of grain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 5 | **buy** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | a pumpkin | many |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary pumpkin=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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