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title: She had good ears, and had laid to heart the story about Ahti. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had good ears, and had laid to heart the story about Ahti. Who acts: Maie. 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 80

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She had good ears, and had laid to heart the story about Ahti.

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**Who acts:** Maie · **What happens:** have, lay · **To what, where:** good ears, heart

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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 (Maie), 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:pg3454:23:80
# text = She had good ears, and had laid to heart the story about Ahti.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Maie | good ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | past · perfect | Maie *not said here* | heart |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme about ahti=Destination |

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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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