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title: Therefore he decreed that one day in every hundred years I should ch… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore he decreed that one day in every hundred years I should change into a little raspberry worm, and live in that weak and helpless form from sunrise to sunset. Who acts: sky, one day. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 22

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Therefore he decreed that one day in every hundred years I should change into a little raspberry worm, and live in that weak and helpless form from sunrise to sunset.

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**Who acts:** sky, one day · **What happens:** decree, change, live · **To what, where:** weak form

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, one day), 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:pg3454:25:22
# text = Therefore he decreed that one day in every hundred years I should change into a little raspberry worm, and live in that weak and helpless form from sunrise to sunset.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decreed	decree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
24	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decree** | past | sky |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | should | one day in every hundred years |  |  |  |  | into a little raspberry worm *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into worm=Result |
| 3 | **live** | present | sky *not said here* |  |  | that weak form from sunrise to sunset |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |

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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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