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title: ‘You would like to sit down and rest, granny?’ asked Tephany, pushin… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You would like to sit down and rest, granny?’ asked Tephany, pushing aside her bundle. Who acts: You, Tephany. 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 clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 49

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‘You would like to sit down and rest, granny?’ asked Tephany, pushing aside her bundle.

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**Who acts:** You, Tephany · **What happens:** like, sit down, rest, ask, push · **To what, where:** bundle · **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 (You, Tephany), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:2873`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:32:49
# text = ‘You would like to sit down and rest, granny?’ asked Tephany, pushing aside her bundle.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | would | You |  |  |  |  | granny *vocative* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tephany |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **push** | gerund | Tephany *not said here* | Tephany's bundle |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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