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title: But whatever Marzinne might say Rozennik smiled and nodded to him as… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But whatever Marzinne might say Rozennik smiled and nodded to him as before, and would often turn her head as she passed, and sing snatches of old songs over her shoulder. Who acts: Marzinne, Rozennik. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its depen
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 60

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But whatever Marzinne might say Rozennik smiled and nodded to him as before, and would often turn her head as she passed, and sing snatches of old songs over her shoulder.

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**Who acts:** Marzinne, Rozennik · **What happens:** say, smile, nod, turn, pass, sing · **To what, where:** whatever, man, head, snatches, shoulder, old songs · **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 (Marzinne, Rozennik), 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:pg3454:25:60
# text = But whatever Marzinne might say Rozennik smiled and nodded to him as before, and would often turn her head as she passed, and sing snatches of old songs over her shoulder.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Rozennik	Rozennik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	snatches	snatch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | might | Marzinne | whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smile** | past | Rozennik |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **nod** | past | Rozennik *not said here* |  | man |  |  | before *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **turn** | would | Marzinne *not said here* | Rozennik's head |  |  |  | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | past | Rozennik |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Marzinne *not said here* | snatches of old songs |  | Rozennik's shoulder |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snatch=Theme |
| 7 | **snatch** |  |  | old songs |  |  |  |  | nom snatch «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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