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title: They made their guest lie down on a hammock woven of the strong cree… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 97

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They made their guest lie down on a hammock woven of the strong creepers which hung from bough to bough, till she was quite rested after her wanderings, while they watched the baby and gave him milk to drink from the cocoa-nuts which they persuaded their friends the monkeys to crack for them.

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**Who acts:** father, guest, strong creepers, cocoa nuts · **What happens:** make, lie down, hang, rest, watch, give · **To what, where:** hammock woven, bough, guest, baby, milk, cocoa nuts

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, guest, strong creepers, cocoa nuts), 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:pg3454:21:97
# text = They made their guest lie down on a hammock woven of the strong creepers which hung from bough to bough, till she was quite rested after her wanderings, while they watched the baby and gave him milk to drink from the cocoa-nuts which they persuaded their friends the monkeys to crack for them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hammock	hammock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	woven	woven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	creepers	creeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie down** | present | father's guest |  |  | a hammock woven of the strong creepers |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on woven=Location |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the strong creepers |  |  | bough |  | to bough | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | past · passive |  | guest |  |  | after guest's wanderings |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** | past | father | the baby |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
| 6 | **give** | past | father *not said here* | milk | baby |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient milk=Theme |
| 7 | **drink** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* |  |  | the cocoa nuts |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from nut=Source |
| 8 | **persuade** | past | the cocoa nuts | father's friends and the monkeys |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 9 | **crack** | to-infinitive | the cocoa nuts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for father | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **wander** |  | guest |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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