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title: But Lisa took a raspberry leaf, swept the worm carefully on to the l… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Lisa took a raspberry leaf, swept the worm carefully on to the leaf and carried it out into the yard. Who acts: Lisa. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 111

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But Lisa took a raspberry leaf, swept the worm carefully on to the leaf and carried it out into the yard.

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**Who acts:** Lisa · **What happens:** take, sweep, carry out · **To what, where:** raspberry leaf, worm, leaf

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lisa), 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:pg3454:24:111
# text = But Lisa took a raspberry leaf, swept the worm carefully on to the leaf and carried it out into the yard.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Lisa | a raspberry leaf |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 2 | **sweep** | past | Lisa *not said here* | the worm |  | the leaf |  | carefully *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent worm=Theme on leaf=Trajectory |
| 3 | **carry out** | past | Lisa *not said here* | leaf |  |  |  | into the yard | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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