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title: Next evening, at the moment when Denis was accustomed to wait for he… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next evening, at the moment when Denis was accustomed to wait for her in the shadow of the cowhouse, Tephany stuck the pin in her dress, and at the very same instant Barbaik took up her sabots or wooden shoes and went through the orchard and past to the fields, to the plot where the cabbages grew. W
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 67

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Next evening, at the moment when Denis was accustomed to wait for her in the shadow of the cowhouse, Tephany stuck the pin in her dress, and at the very same instant Barbaik took up her sabots or wooden shoes and went through the orchard and past to the fields, to the plot where the cabbages grew.

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**Who acts:** Tephany, cabbages · **What happens:** accustom, wait, stick, take up, go, grow · **To what, where:** Denis, shadow, pin, dress, sabots, same instant Barbaik

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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 (Tephany, cabbages), 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:pg3454:32:67
# text = Next evening, at the moment when Denis was accustomed to wait for her in the shadow of the cowhouse, Tephany stuck the pin in her dress, and at the very same instant Barbaik took up her sabots or wooden shoes and went through the orchard and past to the fields, to the plot where the cabbages grew.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	Denis	Denis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cowhouse	cowhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
37	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	sabots	sabot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
46	through	through	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
58	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	61	advmod	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
61	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | Denis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the shadow of the cowhouse |  | for girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location |
| 3 | **stick** | past | Tephany | the pin |  | girl's dress | evening |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme in dress=Destination |
| 4 | **take up** | past | Tephany *not said here* | girl's sabots or wooden shoes |  | the same instant Barbaik |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sabot=Theme at barbaik=Asset |
| 5 | **go** | past | Tephany *not said here* |  |  | the orchard and past |  | to the fields; to the plot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through orchard=Initial\_Location to field=Destination |
| 6 | **grow** | past | the cabbages |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **shadow** |  |  | the cowhouse |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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