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title: But by that token she knew it was no common old woman who had given… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But by that token she knew it was no common old woman who had given it to her, but a fairy, wise in telling what would happen in the days to come. Who acts: girl, token, common old woman. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 65

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But by that token she knew it was no common old woman who had given it to her, but a fairy, wise in telling what would happen in the days to come.

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**Who acts:** girl, token, common old woman · **What happens:** know, be, give, tell, happen, come · **To what, where:** common old woman, token, girl · **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, token, common 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:pg3454:32:65
# text = But by that token she knew it was no common old woman who had given it to her, but a fairy, wise in telling what would happen in the days to come.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | by that token | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | token | no common old woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | no common old woman | token | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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