--- title: Of course the neighbours had a great deal to say about the house whi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Of course the neighbours had a great deal to say about the house which had been built so quickly--so very quickly--on the outskirts of the town, and invented all kinds of stories about the rich lady who lived in it. Who acts: neighbours, rich lady. 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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 (neighbours, rich lady), 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:pg3454:22:24 # text = Of course the neighbours had a great deal to say about the house which had been built so quickly--so very quickly--on the outskirts of the town, and invented all kinds of stories about the rich lady who lived in it. 1 Of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 outskirts outskirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the neighbours | a great deal | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the neighbours *not said here* | a great deal *not said here* | | the outskirts of the town | | about the house; quickly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **build** | past · perfect · passive | | the house | | | | quickly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **invent** | past | the neighbours *not said here* | all kinds of stories about the rich lady | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Result | | 5 | **live** | past | the rich lady | | | house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/25/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/)