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title: ‘Those who help others deserve to be helped,’ she answered; ‘your ey… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Those who help others deserve to be helped,’ she answered; ‘your eyes are still red because that miser Barbaik has forbidden you to speak to the young man from Plover. Who acts: Those, others, woman, eyes. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 57

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‘Those who help others deserve to be helped,’ she answered; ‘your eyes are still red because that miser Barbaik has forbidden you to speak to the young man from Plover.

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**Who acts:** Those, others, woman, eyes · **What happens:** help, deserve, answer, be, forbid, speak · **To what, where:** others, miser · **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 (Those, others, woman, eyes), 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:pg3454:32:57
# text = ‘Those who help others deserve to be helped,’ she answered; ‘your eyes are still red because that miser Barbaik has forbidden you to speak to the young man from Plover.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nmod	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	deserve	deserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Plover	Plover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Those | others |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **deserve** | infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive · passive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme» |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | your eyes |  |  |  | still | red *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **forbid** | present · perfect · passive |  | that miser |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the young man from Plover | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-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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