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title: This annoyed Maie, but nevertheless she rowed out to sea on Sunday n… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This annoyed Maie, but nevertheless she rowed out to sea on Sunday night and sang as before: Who acts: Maie. 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 27

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This annoyed Maie, but nevertheless she rowed out to sea on Sunday night and sang as before:

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**Who acts:** Maie · **What happens:** row out, sing · **To what, where:** annoyed Maie, sea

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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 (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:pg3454:24:27
# text = This annoyed Maie, but nevertheless she rowed out to sea on Sunday night and sang as before:
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Maie	Maie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row out** | past | Maie | annoyed Maie *not said here* |  | sea | night | nevertheless *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maie=Theme to sea=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Maie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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