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title: Early and late the two might be seen in the fields or in the dairy,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Early and late the two might be seen in the fields or in the dairy, milking cows, making butter, feeding fowls; working hard themselves and taking care that others worked too. Who acts: that. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 29

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Early and late the two might be seen in the fields or in the dairy, milking cows, making butter, feeding fowls; working hard themselves and taking care that others worked too.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** see, milk, make, feed, work, take · **To what, where:** two, fields, cows, butter, fowls, care

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg3454:32:29
# text = Early and late the two might be seen in the fields or in the dairy, milking cows, making butter, feeding fowls; working hard themselves and taking care that others worked too.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	milking	milk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
21	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
24	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
31	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **see** | might · passive |  | the two |  | the fields or the dairy |  | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **milk** | gerund |  | cows |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  | butter |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset butter=Product |
| 4 | **feed** | gerund |  | fowls |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Recipient |
| 5 | **work** | gerund |  | fowls *= fowl* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | gerund |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **work** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «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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