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title: Well, this being the sort of person Barbaik was, it is easy to guess… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, this being the sort of person Barbaik was, it is easy to guess at her anger when one day she found Tephany talking outside the cowhouse to young Denis, who was nothing more than a day labourer from the village of Plover. Who acts: this, sort, Barbaik, Tephany. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Bo
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 32

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Well, this being the sort of person Barbaik was, it is easy to guess at her anger when one day she found Tephany talking outside the cowhouse to young Denis, who was nothing more than a day labourer from the village of Plover.

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**Who acts:** this, sort, Barbaik, Tephany, young Denis · **What happens:** be, guess, find, talk, anger · **To what, where:** sort, anger, Tephany, young Denis, nothing

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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 (this, sort, Barbaik, Tephany), 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:pg3454:32:32
# text = Well, this being the sort of person Barbaik was, it is easy to guess at her anger when one day she found Tephany talking outside the cowhouse to young Denis, who was nothing more than a day labourer from the village of Plover.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
27	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cowhouse	cowhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Denis	Denis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	appos	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Plover	Plover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | this | the sort |  |  |  | of person | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sort |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **guess** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Barbaik's anger |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at anger=Value |
| 4 | **find** | past | Barbaik | Tephany |  |  | day |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tephany=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | Tephany *not said here* |  | young Denis |  |  | outside the cowhouse | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to denis=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | young Denis | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **anger** |  | Barbaik |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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