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title: ‘Seven girls live in a hut down there,’ replied the boy, pointing wi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Seven girls live in a hut down there,’ replied the boy, pointing with his finger to where the sun was setting. Who acts: Seven girls, sun. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 1

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‘Seven girls live in a hut down there,’ replied the boy, pointing with his finger to where the sun was setting.

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**Who acts:** Seven girls, sun · **What happens:** live, reply, point, set · **To what, where:** hut, boy

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven girls, sun), 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:pg3454:23:1
# text = ‘Seven girls live in a hut down there,’ replied the boy, pointing with his finger to where the sun was setting.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Seven girls |  |  | a hut; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic |
| 3 | **point** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with boy's finger | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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