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title: ‘Every cow likes salt herring,’ rejoined his wife. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Every cow likes salt herring,’ rejoined his wife. Who acts: cow. 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 40

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‘Every cow likes salt herring,’ rejoined his wife.

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**Who acts:** cow · **What happens:** like, rejoin · **To what, where:** salt herring, wife

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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 (cow), 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:pg3454:23:40
# text = ‘Every cow likes salt herring,’ rejoined his wife.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | every cow | salt herring |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot herring=Theme |
| 2 | **rejoin** | past | every cow *not said here* | fish's wife |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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