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title: ‘When her slave arrived two days ago, there were only four left; but… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘When her slave arrived two days ago, there were only four left; but I gave him one, and would take no corn for it.’ Who acts: slave, I, four. 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 85

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‘When her slave arrived two days ago, there were only four left; but I gave him one, and would take no corn for it.’

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**Who acts:** slave, I, four · **What happens:** arrive, be, leave, give, take · **To what, where:** one, husband, corn

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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 (slave, I, four), 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:pg3454:20:85
# text = ‘When her slave arrived two days ago, there were only four left; but I gave him one, and would take no corn for it.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | sister's slave |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | four |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | I | one | husband |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | would |  | no corn |  |  |  | for slave | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent corn=Theme for it=Beneficiary |

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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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