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title: ‘It is really very odd about that house under the palms,’ he said to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It is really very odd about that house under the palms,’ he said to the queen; ‘I must find out something of the lady whom no one ever sees. Who acts: deal, king, I, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 26

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‘It is really very odd about that house under the palms,’ he said to the queen; ‘I must find out something of the lady whom no one ever sees.

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**Who acts:** deal, king, I, one · **What happens:** be, say, find out, see · **To what, where:** palms, queen, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (deal, king, I, one), 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:pg3454:22:26
# text = ‘It is really very odd about that house under the palms,’ he said to the queen; ‘I must find out something of the lady whom no one ever sees.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | deal |  |  | the palms |  | about that house; odd *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  | the queen |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient |
| 3 | **find out** | must | I | something |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | present | no one |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |

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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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