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title: ‘The students have quite turned your head, for you sang silly songs… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The students have quite turned your head, for you sang silly songs last evening while we were rowing, and then you could not sleep till early morning. Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 81

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‘The students have quite turned your head, for you sang silly songs last evening while we were rowing, and then you could not sleep till early morning.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** turn, sing, row, not sleep · **To what, where:** students, silly songs

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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 (you, we), 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:pg3454:24:81
# text = ‘The students have quite turned your head, for you sang silly songs last evening while we were rowing, and then you could not sleep till early morning.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · perfect · passive |  | the students |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme head=Result |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | you | silly songs |  |  | evening |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **row** | past · progressive | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **sleep** | could | you |  |  |  | then; morning |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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