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title: He had walked far that day, and even wizards get tired sometimes, so… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had walked far that day, and even wizards get tired sometimes, so in spite of the hard floor he was just dropping off to sleep, when midnight struck from the church tower of Plouhinec. Who acts: wizard, wizards, midnight. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 69

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He had walked far that day, and even wizards get tired sometimes, so in spite of the hard floor he was just dropping off to sleep, when midnight struck from the church tower of Plouhinec.

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**Who acts:** wizard, wizards, midnight · **What happens:** walk, get, drop off, sleep, strike, spite · **To what, where:** spite, church tower, hard floor

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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 (wizard, wizards, midnight), 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:pg3454:25:69
# text = He had walked far that day, and even wizards get tired sometimes, so in spite of the hard floor he was just dropping off to sleep, when midnight struck from the church tower of Plouhinec.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Plouhinec	Plouhinec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect | wizard |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | wizards |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **drop off** | past · progressive | wizard |  |  | spite of the hard floor |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in spite=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | wizard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **strike** | past | midnight |  |  | the church tower of Plouhinec |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | the hard floor |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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