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title: On the further side, the fairies, or korigans, as the people called… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the further side, the fairies, or korigans, as the people called them, had set up long long ago two rows of huge stones; indeed, so tall and heavy were they, that it seemed as if all the fairies in the world could not have placed them upright. Who acts: people, fairies. A sentence of «The Lilac F
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 56

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On the further side, the fairies, or korigans, as the people called them, had set up long long ago two rows of huge stones; indeed, so tall and heavy were they, that it seemed as if all the fairies in the world could not have placed them upright.

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**Who acts:** people, fairies · **What happens:** call, set up, be, not place · **To what, where:** korigans, two rows, further side, fairies · **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 (people, fairies), 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:pg3454:25:56
# text = On the further side, the fairies, or korigans, as the people called them, had set up long long ago two rows of huge stones; indeed, so tall and heavy were they, that it seemed as if all the fairies in the world could not have placed them upright.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	korigans	korigan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux	_	_
53	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	xcomp	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | the people | korigans *= korigan* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **set up** | past · perfect | the people *not said here* | two rows of huge stones |  |  |  | long *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the fairies or korigans |  |  | the further side |  | seem *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **place** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · perfect · passive |  | all fairies in the world |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination |

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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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