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title: For seven days she wandered about, eating only the fruit that hung f… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For seven days she wandered about, eating only the fruit that hung from the trees above her, and every night she climbed up and tucked herself safely among the creepers which bound together the big branches, so that neither lions nor tigers nor panthers might get at her. Who acts: sister, fruit, cre
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 92

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For seven days she wandered about, eating only the fruit that hung from the trees above her, and every night she climbed up and tucked herself safely among the creepers which bound together the big branches, so that neither lions nor tigers nor panthers might get at her.

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**Who acts:** sister, fruit, creepers, lions · **What happens:** wander, eat, hang, climb up, tuck, bound · **To what, where:** fruit, trees, sister, creepers, big branches

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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 (sister, fruit, creepers, lions), 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:pg3454:20:92
# text = For seven days she wandered about, eating only the fruit that hung from the trees above her, and every night she climbed up and tucked herself safely among the creepers which bound together the big branches, so that neither lions nor tigers nor panthers might get at her.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	creepers	creeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	together	together	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
40	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
42	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
44	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc	_	_
45	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	47	cc	_	_
47	panthers	panther	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
48	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | sister |  |  |  | day | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | sister *not said here* | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the fruit |  |  | the trees |  | above sister | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above she=Location |
| 4 | **climb up** | past | sister |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tuck** | past | sister *not said here* | sister |  | the creepers |  | safely *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent herself=Theme among creeper=Trajectory |
| 6 | **bound** | present | the creepers | the big branches |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location branch=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | might | neither lions nor tigers nor panthers |  |  |  |  | at sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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