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title: Then he forgot how his mother had told him the tale, and was obliged… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he forgot how his mother had told him the tale, and was obliged to begin all over again, so the story lasted a long while, and by the time it was ended the children were ready to be rolled up in what ever coverings could be found, and go to sleep. Who acts: Kenneth, story, time, children. A sen
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 51

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Then he forgot how his mother had told him the tale, and was obliged to begin all over again, so the story lasted a long while, and by the time it was ended the children were ready to be rolled up in what ever coverings could be found, and go to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Kenneth, story, time, children · **What happens:** forget, tell, oblige, begin, last, end · **To what, where:** mother, tale, story, coverings, sleep · **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 (Kenneth, story, time, children), 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:pg3454:25:51
# text = Then he forgot how his mother had told him the tale, and was obliged to begin all over again, so the story lasted a long while, and by the time it was ended the children were ready to be rolled up in what ever coverings could be found, and go to sleep.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	xcomp	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
47	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	48	advmod	_	_
48	coverings	covering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | Kenneth |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | Kenneth's mother | the tale |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive | Kenneth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 4 | **begin** | to-infinitive | Kenneth *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **last** | past | the story |  |  |  | while |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **end** | past · passive | the time *not said here* | story |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is** | past | the children |  |  |  | time | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **roll up** | to-infinitive · passive | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: in what=Trajectory |
| 9 | **find** | could · passive |  | coverings |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 10 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_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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