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title: Hastening home the sister told the others what she had witnessed, an… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hastening home the sister told the others what she had witnessed, and that a lovely fat fish might be had for the catching. Who acts: Hastening. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 83

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Hastening home the sister told the others what she had witnessed, and that a lovely fat fish might be had for the catching.

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**Who acts:** Hastening · **What happens:** hasten, tell, witness, have · **To what, where:** sister, others, girl, lovely fat fish · **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 (Hastening), 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:pg3454:22:83
# text = Hastening home the sister told the others what she had witnessed, and that a lovely fat fish might be had for the catching.
1	Hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	witnessed	witness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	catching	catching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | gerund |  | the sister |  |  |  | home *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hastening | the others |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **witness** | past · perfect · passive |  | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | might · passive |  | a lovely fat fish |  |  |  | for the catching | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: fish=Patient |

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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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