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title: But the youngest did not finish hers, and when no one was looking, s… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the youngest did not finish hers, and when no one was looking, stole off to the fountain in the forest where the little fish was swimming about. Who acts: youngest, one, little fish. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 75

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But the youngest did not finish hers, and when no one was looking, stole off to the fountain in the forest where the little fish was swimming about.

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**Who acts:** youngest, one, little fish · **What happens:** not finish, look, steal off, swim · **To what, where:** stream

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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 (youngest, one, little fish), 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:pg3454:22:75
# text = But the youngest did not finish hers, and when no one was looking, stole off to the fountain in the forest where the little fish was swimming about.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **finish** | past · do-support | the youngest | stream |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality her=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | past · progressive | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **steal off** | past | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the fountain in the forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **swim** | past · progressive | the little fish |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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