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title: And as she scooped out the hole with a stick she sang a song, biddin… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she scooped out the hole with a stick she sang a song, bidding the bones grow till they became a tree--a tree that reached up so high into the heavens that its leaves would fall across the sea into another island, whose king would pick them up. Who acts: body, bones, tree, leaves. A sentence 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 90

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And as she scooped out the hole with a stick she sang a song, bidding the bones grow till they became a tree--a tree that reached up so high into the heavens that its leaves would fall across the sea into another island, whose king would pick them up.

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**Who acts:** body, bones, tree, leaves, king · **What happens:** scoop out, sing, bid, grow, become, reach up · **To what, where:** hole, song, bones, tree, heavens, sea

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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 (body, bones, tree, leaves), 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:pg3454:22:90
# text = And as she scooped out the hole with a stick she sang a song, bidding the bones grow till they became a tree--a tree that reached up so high into the heavens that its leaves would fall across the sea into another island, whose king would pick them up.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scooped	scoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
41	across	across	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scoop out** | past | body | the hole |  |  |  | with a stick | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | body | a song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | body *not said here* | the bones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **become** | past | bones *= bone* | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **reach up** | past | a tree |  |  | the heavens |  | high *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into heaven=Path |
| 7 | **fall** | would | hole's leaves | the heavens |  | the sea |  | into another island | tree rules |
| 8 | **pick up** | would | king | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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