--- title: This seemed to the girls more and more wonderful, but tired and slee… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This seemed to the girls more and more wonderful, but tired and sleepy as they were, they thought no more about it, but crept into the little beds, drew the coverlets over their heads and were soon asleep. Who acts: This, girls. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:25:2 # text = This seemed to the girls more and more wonderful, but tired and sleepy as they were, they thought no more about it, but crept into the little beds, drew the coverlets over their heads and were soon asleep. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 no no ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 coverlets coverlet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 42 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | This | | | | | to the girls | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** | past | girls *= girl* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | girls *= girl* | more | | | | about side | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | | 4 | **creep** | past | | | | the little beds | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination | | 5 | **draw** | past | | the coverlets | | girls's heads | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | asleep, soon *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/3/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/)