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title: Next morning she went as usual to the cave, and sang her little song… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning she went as usual to the cave, and sang her little song, but no Djulung came to answer it; twice and thrice she sang, then threw herself on her knees by the edge, and peered into the dark water, but the trees cast such a deep shadow that her eyes could not pierce it. Who acts: girl, Dju
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 85

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Next morning she went as usual to the cave, and sang her little song, but no Djulung came to answer it; twice and thrice she sang, then threw herself on her knees by the edge, and peered into the dark water, but the trees cast such a deep shadow that her eyes could not pierce it.

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**Who acts:** girl, Djulung, trees, eyes · **What happens:** go, sing, come, answer, throw, peer · **To what, where:** cave, little song, song, girl, knees, deep shadow

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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 (girl, Djulung, trees, eyes), 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:pg3454:22:85
# text = Next morning she went as usual to the cave, and sang her little song, but no Djulung came to answer it; twice and thrice she sang, then threw herself on her knees by the edge, and peered into the dark water, but the trees cast such a deep shadow that her eyes could not pierce it.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	Djulung	Djulung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	thrice	thrice	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	peered	peer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
52	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	55	det:predet	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
57	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
59	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	acl	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | girl |  |  | the cave | morning | as usual | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | girl *not said here* | girl's little song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | no Djulung |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | no Djulung *not said here* | song |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | girl |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 6 | **throw** | past |  | girl |  | girl's knees | then | by the edge | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on knee=Destination |
| 7 | **peer** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into the dark water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme |
| 8 | **cast** | past | the trees | such deep shadow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product |
| 9 | **not** **pierce** | could | girl's eyes | shadow |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 10 | **sing** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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