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title: But the herring were now ready, and the students ate enough for six,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the herring were now ready, and the students ate enough for six, and gave Prince some cold meat which they happened to have in the boat. Who acts: herring, students, cold meat. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 75

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But the herring were now ready, and the students ate enough for six, and gave Prince some cold meat which they happened to have in the boat.

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**Who acts:** herring, students, cold meat · **What happens:** be, eat, give, happen, have · **To what, where:** cold meat, Prince, boat

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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 (herring, students, cold meat), 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:pg3454:23:75
# text = But the herring were now ready, and the students ate enough for six, and gave Prince some cold meat which they happened to have in the boat.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the herring |  |  |  | now | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | past | the students |  |  |  |  | for six; enough *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | the students *not said here* | some cold meat | Prince |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient meat=Theme |
| 4 | **happen** | past | some cold meat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | some cold meat *not said here* |  |  | the boat |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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