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title: He must stay where he was, there was no help for it, and luckily for… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He must stay where he was, there was no help for it, and luckily for him the king was too much interested in the tale to notice that the fan had ceased moving, and that flies were dancing right on the top of his thick curly hair. Who acts: brother, help, king, flies. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy B
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 48

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He must stay where he was, there was no help for it, and luckily for him the king was too much interested in the tale to notice that the fan had ceased moving, and that flies were dancing right on the top of his thick curly hair.

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**Who acts:** brother, help, king, flies · **What happens:** stay, be, notice, cease, move, dance · **To what, where:** tale, fan, top · **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 (brother, help, king, flies), 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:pg3454:22:48
# text = He must stay where he was, there was no help for it, and luckily for him the king was too much interested in the tale to notice that the fan had ceased moving, and that flies were dancing right on the top of his thick curly hair.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	_
35	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
42	right	right	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
48	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | must | brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | no help for head |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the king |  |  | the tale |  | interested *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **notice** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **cease** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **dance** | past · progressive | that flies |  |  | the top of brother's thick curly hair |  | right *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |

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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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