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title: And as for poor people she positively hated them, and declared that… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for poor people she positively hated them, and declared that such lazy creatures had no business in the world. Who acts: Barbaik, such lazy creatures. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 31

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And as for poor people she positively hated them, and declared that such lazy creatures had no business in the world.

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**Who acts:** Barbaik, such lazy creatures · **What happens:** hate, declare, have · **To what, where:** food, business, world · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, such lazy creatures), 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:pg3454:32:31
# text = And as for poor people she positively hated them, and declared that such lazy creatures had no business in the world.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | Barbaik | food |  |  |  | for poor people; positively *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus for people=Attribute |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Barbaik *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | such lazy creatures | no business |  | the world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |

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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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