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title: Besides that, they had bread, butter, fish, a beer cask, and a butte… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides that, they had bread, butter, fish, a beer cask, and a buttermilk jar; what more did they require? Who acts: Matte. 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 33

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Besides that, they had bread, butter, fish, a beer cask, and a buttermilk jar; what more did they require?

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**Who acts:** Matte · **What happens:** have, require · **To what, where:** bread

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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 (Matte), 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:pg3454:23:33
# text = Besides that, they had bread, butter, fish, a beer cask, and a buttermilk jar; what more did they require?
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Matte | bread and butter and fish and a beer cask and a buttermilk jar |  |  |  | besides that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 2 | **require** | past · do-support | Matte |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition |

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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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