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title: As there was no Djulung to give her rice to, the girl soon became fa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As there was no Djulung to give her rice to, the girl soon became fat again, and as she was able to do her work as of old, her sisters did not trouble about her. Who acts: Djulung, girl, body, sisters. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its depen
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 91

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As there was no Djulung to give her rice to, the girl soon became fat again, and as she was able to do her work as of old, her sisters did not trouble about her.

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**Who acts:** Djulung, girl, body, sisters · **What happens:** be, give, become, do, work · **To what, where:** rice, work, trouble

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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 (Djulung, girl, body, sisters), 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:pg3454:22:91
# text = As there was no Djulung to give her rice to, the girl soon became fat again, and as she was able to do her work as of old, her sisters did not trouble about her.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	Djulung	Djulung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no Djulung |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | no Djulung *not said here* | body's rice |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | fat, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | body |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | body *not said here* | body's work |  |  |  | as old | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 6 | **do** | past | body's sisters | trouble |  |  |  | about body | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
| 7 | **work** |  | body |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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