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title: ‘He has grown tired of me,’ answered Tephany in a trembling voice, ‘… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘He has grown tired of me,’ answered Tephany in a trembling voice, ‘and he makes excuses to stay away. Who acts: maiden, excuses. 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 76

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‘He has grown tired of me,’ answered Tephany in a trembling voice, ‘and he makes excuses to stay away.

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**Who acts:** maiden, excuses · **What happens:** grow, answer, make, stay away · **To what, where:** Tephany, trembling voice, excuses

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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 (maiden, excuses), 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:pg3454:32:76
# text = ‘He has grown tired of me,’ answered Tephany in a trembling voice, ‘and he makes excuses to stay away.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	excuses	excuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · perfect | maiden |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Tephany | a trembling voice |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tephany=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | present | maiden | excuses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay away** | to-infinitive | excuses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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