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title: All would have gone well had not Maie been possessed with a secret l… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All would have gone well had not Maie been possessed with a secret longing which never let her rest; and this was, how she could manage to become the owner of a cow. Who acts: All, secret longing, this. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its depe
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 34

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All would have gone well had not Maie been possessed with a secret longing which never let her rest; and this was, how she could manage to become the owner of a cow.

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**Who acts:** All, secret longing, this · **What happens:** go, have, not possess, not let, rest, be · **To what, where:** Maie, secret longing, owner

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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 (All, secret longing, this), 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:pg3454:23:34
# text = All would have gone well had not Maie been possessed with a secret longing which never let her rest; and this was, how she could manage to become the owner of a cow.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	Maie	Maie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would · perfect | All |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | participle | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **possess** | participle · passive |  | Maie |  |  |  | with a secret longing | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **let** | past |  | a secret longing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rest** | infinitive | a secret longing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | could · past | this |  |  |  |  | manage *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **become** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | the owner of a cow |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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