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title: Perhaps it might have been better for Barbaik if she had left hersel… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps it might have been better for Barbaik if she had left herself a little time to rest and to think about other things, for soon she grew to love money for its own sake, and only gave herself and Tephany the food and clothes they absolutely needed. Who acts: two, Barbaik, food. A sentence of «T
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 30

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Perhaps it might have been better for Barbaik if she had left herself a little time to rest and to think about other things, for soon she grew to love money for its own sake, and only gave herself and Tephany the food and clothes they absolutely needed.

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**Who acts:** two, Barbaik, food · **What happens:** be, leave, rest, think, grow, love · **To what, where:** Barbaik, money, food

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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 (two, Barbaik, food), 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:pg3454:32:30
# text = Perhaps it might have been better for Barbaik if she had left herself a little time to rest and to think about other things, for soon she grew to love money for its own sake, and only gave herself and Tephany the food and clothes they absolutely needed.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
41	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	iobj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	45	conj	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might · perfect | two |  |  |  |  | for Barbaik; good, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Barbaik | Barbaik |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Barbaik *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Barbaik *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about other things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |
| 5 | **grow** | past | Barbaik |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **love** | to-infinitive | Barbaik *not said here* | money |  |  |  | for two's own sake | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus for sake=Attribute |
| 7 | **give** | past | Barbaik *not said here* | the food and clothes | Barbaik |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient food=Theme |
| 8 | **need** | past | food | the food and clothes *not said here* |  |  |  | absolutely *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |

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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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