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title: In any case they must not discover her there; so just bidding the ri… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In any case they must not discover her there; so just bidding the ring prepare some food for them, she ran inside, and bound a veil of golden gauze round her head and face. Who acts: people, wife. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 33

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In any case they must not discover her there; so just bidding the ring prepare some food for them, she ran inside, and bound a veil of golden gauze round her head and face.

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**Who acts:** people, wife · **What happens:** not discover, bid, prepare, run, bound · **To what, where:** wife, case, ring, food, veil

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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 (people, wife), 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:pg3454:22:33
# text = In any case they must not discover her there; so just bidding the ring prepare some food for them, she ran inside, and bound a veil of golden gauze round her head and face.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bound	bound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	gauze	gauze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	round	round	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **discover** | must | people | wife |  | any case; there |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **bid** | gerund | people *not said here* | the ring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive | people *not said here* | some food |  |  |  | for people | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Product for they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **run** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bound** | infinitive | people *not said here* | a veil of golden gauze |  |  |  | round wife's head and face | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location veil=Theme |

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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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