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title: Then suddenly Tephany’s eyes fell on the clothes, and to make up for… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly Tephany’s eyes fell on the clothes, and to make up for lost time she began to wash them with great vigour. Who acts: eyes, girl. 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 66

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Then suddenly Tephany’s eyes fell on the clothes, and to make up for lost time she began to wash them with great vigour.

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**Who acts:** eyes, girl · **What happens:** fall, make up, lose, begin, wash · **To what, where:** clothes, lost time, eyes

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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 (eyes, girl), 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:pg3454:32:66
# text = Then suddenly Tephany’s eyes fell on the clothes, and to make up for lost time she began to wash them with great vigour.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Tephany's eyes |  |  | the clothes |  | suddenly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on clothes=Location |
| 2 | **make up** | to-infinitive | Tephany's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | girl | lost time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wash** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | with great vigour | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with vigour=Instrument |

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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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