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title: Here she stayed quietly, and every day the baby grew taller and stro… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here she stayed quietly, and every day the baby grew taller and stronger, and very soon he could run about and even talk. Who acts: snake, baby. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 23

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Here she stayed quietly, and every day the baby grew taller and stronger, and very soon he could run about and even talk.

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**Who acts:** snake, baby · **What happens:** stay, grow, run about, talk

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, baby), 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:pg3454:22:23
# text = Here she stayed quietly, and every day the baby grew taller and stronger, and very soon he could run about and even talk.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | snake |  |  | here |  | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the baby |  |  |  | day | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run about** | could | baby |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **talk** | infinitive | baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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