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title: ‘For some months you visited the cottage every week; but a rebellion… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘For some months you visited the cottage every week; but a rebellion broke out in a distant part of the kingdom, and called for your presence. Who acts: you, rebellion. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 95

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‘For some months you visited the cottage every week; but a rebellion broke out in a distant part of the kingdom, and called for your presence.

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**Who acts:** you, rebellion · **What happens:** visit, break out, call · **To what, where:** cottage, distant part · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rebellion), 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:pg3454:3:95
# text = ‘For some months you visited the cottage every week; but a rebellion broke out in a distant part of the kingdom, and called for your presence.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | you | the cottage |  |  | month; week |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **break out** | past | a rebellion |  |  | a distant part of the kingdom |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a rebellion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your presence | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for presence=Recipient |

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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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