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title: There was a pause, and some of the faces looked a little frightened;… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a pause, and some of the faces looked a little frightened; for the new-comer was well known to them as a beggar, who was also said to be a wizard who cast spells over the cattle, and caused the corn to grow black, and old people to die, of what, nobody knew. Who acts: some, wizard, old peo
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 64

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There was a pause, and some of the faces looked a little frightened; for the new-comer was well known to them as a beggar, who was also said to be a wizard who cast spells over the cattle, and caused the corn to grow black, and old people to die, of what, nobody knew.

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**Who acts:** some, wizard, old people, nobody · **What happens:** be, frighten, know, say, cast, cause · **To what, where:** little, Marzinne, beggar, wizard, spells, corn · **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 (some, wizard, old people, nobody), 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:pg3454:25:64
# text = There was a pause, and some of the faces looked a little frightened; for the new-comer was well known to them as a beggar, who was also said to be a wizard who cast spells over the cattle, and caused the corn to grow black, and old people to die, of what, nobody knew.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	over	over	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl	_	_
51	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
54	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	63	nsubj	_	_
63	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | some |  |  |  |  | look *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle |  | a little |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive | some *not said here* |  | Marzinne |  |  | for the new comer; as a beggar; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as beggar=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | a beggar |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cast** | past | a wizard | spells |  |  |  | over the cattle | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over cattle=Destination |
| 7 | **cause** | past |  | the corn |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition corn=Patient |
| 8 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  | the corn *not said here* |  |  |  | black *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **die** | to-infinitive | old people |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **know** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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