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title: We had stormy weather during the night, and when it was past I did n… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We had stormy weather during the night, and when it was past I did not wish to waken you, so rowed out alone to rescue the net.’ Who acts: We, it. 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 82

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We had stormy weather during the night, and when it was past I did not wish to waken you, so rowed out alone to rescue the net.’

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**Who acts:** We, it · **What happens:** have, not be, waken, row out, rescue · **To what, where:** stormy weather, you, net

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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 (We, it), 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:pg3454:24:82
# text = We had stormy weather during the night, and when it was past I did not wish to waken you, so rowed out alone to rescue the net.’
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	past	past	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	rowed	row	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We | stormy weather |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | wish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **waken** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 4 | **row out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rescue** | to-infinitive |  | the net |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=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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