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title: The king had just awakened from his midday sleep, for it was summer,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king had just awakened from his midday sleep, for it was summer, and everyone rose early and rested from twelve to three, as they do in hot countries. Who acts: sleep, everyone, Prince, king. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency t
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 38

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The king had just awakened from his midday sleep, for it was summer, and everyone rose early and rested from twelve to three, as they do in hot countries.

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**Who acts:** sleep, everyone, Prince, king · **What happens:** awaken, be, rise, rest, do, sleep · **To what, where:** king, midday sleep, twelve, hot countries

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, everyone, Prince, king), 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:pg3454:3:38
# text = The king had just awakened from his midday sleep, for it was summer, and everyone rose early and rested from twelve to three, as they do in hot countries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | past · perfect · passive |  | the king |  | king's midday sleep |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | sleep |  |  |  |  | for summer | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | past | everyone *not said here* |  |  | twelve to three |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present | Prince |  |  | hot countries |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sleep** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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