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title: With a sore heart she granted permission, and so content was Owen to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With a sore heart she granted permission, and so content was Owen to be once more with his old companions that three years instead of three months passed away like a dream. Who acts: countess, three years. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its d
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 61

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With a sore heart she granted permission, and so content was Owen to be once more with his old companions that three years instead of three months passed away like a dream.

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**Who acts:** countess, three years · **What happens:** grant, be, pass away · **To what, where:** permission, Owen, old companions

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countess, three years), 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:pg3454:31:61
# text = With a sore heart she granted permission, and so content was Owen to be once more with his old companions that three years instead of three months passed away like a dream.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past | countess | permission |  |  |  | with a sore heart; content *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent permission=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Owen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass away** | past | three years instead three months | Owen's old companions |  |  |  | like a dream; away *property* | tree rules |

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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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