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title: When he woke the girl had disappeared, and the byre was so clean tha… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he woke the girl had disappeared, and the byre was so clean that a golden apple could roll from end to end of it. Who acts: youth, byre, golden apple. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 105

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When he woke the girl had disappeared, and the byre was so clean that a golden apple could roll from end to end of it.

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**Who acts:** youth, byre, golden apple · **What happens:** wake, disappear, be, roll · **To what, where:** girl, end

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, byre, golden apple), 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:pg3454:28:105
# text = When he woke the girl had disappeared, and the byre was so clean that a golden apple could roll from end to end of it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | youth | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 2 | **disappear** | past · perfect |  | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the byre |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roll** | could | a golden apple |  |  |  | from end; to end of byre |  | vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from end=Initial\_Location to end=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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