--- title: Then he went into the house and took away everything he could find,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he went into the house and took away everything he could find, and sold the house to a friend of his who had long wished to have it, and his sister had no home to go to. Who acts: brother, sister, home. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, sister, home), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:20:90 # text = Then he went into the house and took away everything he could find, and sold the house to a friend of his who had long wished to have it, and his sister had no home to go to. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 away away ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 obj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 of of SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 wished wish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | brother | | | the house | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **take away** | past | brother *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 3 | **find** | could | brother | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sell** | past | brother *not said here* | the house | a friend | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Theme to friend=Recipient | | 5 | **wish** | past · perfect · passive | | a friend | | | | long *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | | blow | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | brother's sister | no home | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go** | to-infinitive | no home *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/91/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/)