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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 65

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One sister had to clean the house, a second carried water from the spring in the forest, a third cooked their food, while to the youngest fell the hardest task of all, for she had to cut and bring home the wood which was to keep the fire continually burning.

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**Who acts:** One sister, third, wood · **What happens:** have, clean, carry, cook, fall, cut · **To what, where:** house, food, hardest task, wood

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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 (One sister, third, wood), 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:pg3454:22:65
# text = One sister had to clean the house, a second carried water from the spring in the forest, a third cooked their food, while to the youngest fell the hardest task of all, for she had to cut and bring home the wood which was to keep the fire continually burning.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	obl	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
44	home	home	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | One sister |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **clean** | to-infinitive | One sister *not said here* | the house  a second and carried water |  |  | spring |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cook** | past | a third | sisters's food |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** | past |  | the hardest task of all |  |  |  | to the youngest *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient task=Extent to young=Result |
| 6 | **have** | past | third |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **cut** | to-infinitive | third *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **bring** | infinitive | third *not said here* | the wood |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | the wood | the wood *not said here* |  |  |  | keep *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **burn** | gerund | the wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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