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title: Perhaps some of you may have read a book called ‘Kenneth; or the Rea… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps some of you may have read a book called ‘Kenneth; or the Rear-Guard of the Grand Army’ of Napoleon. Who acts: Rear Guard. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 46

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Perhaps some of you may have read a book called ‘Kenneth; or the Rear-Guard of the Grand Army’ of Napoleon.

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**Who acts:** Rear Guard · **What happens:** read, call · **To what, where:** some, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rear Guard), 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:pg3454:25:46
# text = Perhaps some of you may have read a book called ‘Kenneth; or the Rear-Guard of the Grand Army’ of Napoleon.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Kenneth	Kenneth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Rear	rear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | may · perfect · passive | the Rear Guard of the Grand Army of Napoleon | some |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient book=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a book *not said here* |  |  |  | ‘ Kenneth | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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