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title: How delicious every morning and evening to draw milk from it, and ye… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How delicious every morning and evening to draw milk from it, and yet have no trouble about the feeding, and to keep a shelf near the window for dishes of milk and junkets! A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 82

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How delicious every morning and evening to draw milk from it, and yet have no trouble about the feeding, and to keep a shelf near the window for dishes of milk and junkets!

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**What happens:** draw, have, keep · **To what, where:** milk, heart, trouble, shelf, window

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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: 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:pg3454:23:82
# text = How delicious every morning and evening to draw milk from it, and yet have no trouble about the feeding, and to keep a shelf near the window for dishes of milk and junkets!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl	_	_
9	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	junkets	junket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  | milk |  | heart |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent milk=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | no trouble |  |  | yet; morning | about the feeding | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | a shelf |  | the window |  | for dishes of milk and junkets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme near window=Location |

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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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