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title: So he built a large cottage, with a real lock to the door, and a sto… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he built a large cottage, with a real lock to the door, and a store-house for fish as well; and he and his men caught such quantities of fish that they sent tons of salmon, herring, and cod to Russian and Sweden. Who acts: Matte, quantities. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 21

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So he built a large cottage, with a real lock to the door, and a store-house for fish as well; and he and his men caught such quantities of fish that they sent tons of salmon, herring, and cod to Russian and Sweden.

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**Who acts:** Matte, quantities · **What happens:** build, catch, send · **To what, where:** large cottage, such quantities, fish

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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 (Matte, quantities), 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:pg3454:24:21
# text = So he built a large cottage, with a real lock to the door, and a store-house for fish as well; and he and his men caught such quantities of fish that they sent tons of salmon, herring, and cod to Russian and Sweden.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	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	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	20	advmod	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Matte | a large cottage |  |  |  | with a real lock to the door; a store house for fish *obl* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme with lock=Source |
| 2 | **catch** | past | Matte | such quantities of fish |  |  |  | cod to Russian and Sweden *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | quantities *= quantity* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination ton=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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