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title: Then the horn for washing themselves was sounded, and after that the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the horn for washing themselves was sounded, and after that the king and his household sat down to eat. Who acts: horn, king. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 73

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Then the horn for washing themselves was sounded, and after that the king and his household sat down to eat.

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**Who acts:** horn, king · **What happens:** wash, sound, sit down, eat · **To what, where:** horns, horn

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horn, 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:pg3454:30:73
# text = Then the horn for washing themselves was sounded, and after that the king and his household sat down to eat.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | gerund | the horn *not said here* | horns *= horn* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **sound** | past · passive |  | the horn |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | the king and lord's household |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the king and lord's household *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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