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title: By the time she got home, the rice for their dinner was ready cooked… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time she got home, the rice for their dinner was ready cooked, and the eldest sister gave the other six their portions in wooden bowls. Who acts: stream, eldest sister. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 74

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By the time she got home, the rice for their dinner was ready cooked, and the eldest sister gave the other six their portions in wooden bowls.

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**Who acts:** stream, eldest sister · **What happens:** get, cook, give · **To what, where:** time, rice, portions, other six, wooden bowls

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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 (stream, eldest sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:1977`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:22:74
# text = By the time she got home, the rice for their dinner was ready cooked, and the eldest sister gave the other six their portions in wooden bowls.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	ready	ready	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	iobj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | stream | the time *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cook** | past · passive |  | the rice for rocks's dinner |  |  | time | ready *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past | the eldest sister | sisters's portions | the other six | wooden bowls |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent six=Recipient portion=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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