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title: Their eyes were heavy for lack of slumber, and they slept as soundly… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their eyes were heavy for lack of slumber, and they slept as soundly as if there had not been such a thing as an angry sea roaring furiously around their lonely dwelling. Who acts: eyes, angry sea. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependenc
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 131

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Their eyes were heavy for lack of slumber, and they slept as soundly as if there had not been such a thing as an angry sea roaring furiously around their lonely dwelling.

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**Who acts:** eyes, angry sea · **What happens:** be, sleep, have, not be, roar, lack · **To what, where:** thing, lonely dwelling, slumber

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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 (eyes, angry sea), 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:pg3454:23:131
# text = Their eyes were heavy for lack of slumber, and they slept as soundly as if there had not been such a thing as an angry sea roaring furiously around their lonely dwelling.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	around	around	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | things's eyes |  |  |  |  | for lack of slumber; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | participle |  | such thing |  |  |  | as a angry sea | tree rules |
| 5 | **roar** | gerund | a angry sea *not said here* |  |  | things's lonely dwelling |  | furiously *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around dwelling=Location |
| 6 | **lack** |  |  | slumber |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=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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