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title: If so, you will remember how the two Scotch children found in Russia… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If so, you will remember how the two Scotch children found in Russia were taken care of by the French soldiers and prevented as far as possible from suffering from the horrors of the terrible Retreat. Who acts: you, French soldiers. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fair
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 47

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If so, you will remember how the two Scotch children found in Russia were taken care of by the French soldiers and prevented as far as possible from suffering from the horrors of the terrible Retreat.

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**Who acts:** you, French soldiers · **What happens:** remember, find, take, prevent, suffer · **To what, where:** two Scotch children, Russia, horrors · **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 (you, French soldiers), 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:pg3454:25:47
# text = If so, you will remember how the two Scotch children found in Russia were taken care of by the French soldiers and prevented as far as possible from suffering from the horrors of the terrible Retreat.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	Scotch	scotch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
29	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	horrors	horror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **remember** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | the two Scotch children *not said here* |  | Russia |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past · passive | the French soldiers | the two Scotch children |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Theme care=Destination |
| 4 | **prevent** | participle | the French soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 5 | **suffer** | gerund | the French soldiers *not said here* |  |  | the horrors of the terrible Retreat |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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