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title: Yes, but who would not like to live in such a pretty home as it live… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, but who would not like to live in such a pretty home as it lives in; in such a fresh fragrant dark-red cottage, far away in the quiet wood among flowers and green leaves! Who acts: home. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 115

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Yes, but who would not like to live in such a pretty home as it lives in; in such a fresh fragrant dark-red cottage, far away in the quiet wood among flowers and green leaves!

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**Who acts:** home · **What happens:** not like, live, live in · **To what, where:** home

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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 (home), 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:pg3454:24:115
# text = Yes, but who would not like to live in such a pretty home as it lives in; in such a fresh fragrant dark-red cottage, far away in the quiet wood among flowers and green leaves!
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
24	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	among	among	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **like** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | such home |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location |
| 3 | **live in** | present | home |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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