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title: ‘Take this,’ she said; ‘to-day at any rate you shall dine well,’ and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Take this,’ she said; ‘to-day at any rate you shall dine well,’ and the old woman took it, gazing at Tephany the while. Who acts: girl, you, old woman. 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 56

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‘Take this,’ she said; ‘to-day at any rate you shall dine well,’ and the old woman took it, gazing at Tephany the while.

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**Who acts:** girl, you, old woman · **What happens:** take, say, dine, gaze · **To what, where:** this, rate · **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 (girl, you, old woman), 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:pg3454:32:56
# text = ‘Take this,’ she said; ‘to-day at any rate you shall dine well,’ and the old woman took it, gazing at Tephany the while.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **dine** | shall | you |  |  |  | day | well *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | the old woman | rate |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **gaze** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  | while | at Tephany | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tephany=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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