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title: So the stone remained before the young man till the rest had taken t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the stone remained before the young man till the rest had taken their places, and then, darting like a bird to its own hole, came upon the beggar, who, thinking himself quite safe, was staggering along under the weight of his treasures. Who acts: own hole, beggar, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fa
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 51

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So the stone remained before the young man till the rest had taken their places, and then, darting like a bird to its own hole, came upon the beggar, who, thinking himself quite safe, was staggering along under the weight of his treasures.

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**Who acts:** own hole, beggar, man · **What happens:** remain, take, dart, come, think, stagger · **To what, where:** stone, own hole, beggar, man, weight

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own hole, beggar, man), 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:pg3454:26:51
# text = So the stone remained before the young man till the rest had taken their places, and then, darting like a bird to its own hole, came upon the beggar, who, thinking himself quite safe, was staggering along under the weight of his treasures.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	till	till	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	darting	dart	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	staggering	stagger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
43	along	along	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	under	under	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | participle |  | the stone *not said here* |  |  | before the young man; till the rest |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before man=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |
| 3 | **dart** | gerund |  |  |  | stone's own hole | then | like a bird | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hole=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | stone's own hole *not said here* |  |  | the beggar |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon beggar=Location |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the beggar | man |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
| 6 | **stagger** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the weight of man's treasures |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=Trajectory |
| 7 | **treasure** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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