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title: It was not long before Denis began to agree with them, and as he alw… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 92

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It was not long before Denis began to agree with them, and as he always liked to be master wherever he went, he became afraid of Tephany’s sharp tongue, and instead of laughing as before when she made fun of other people he grew red and uncomfortable, thinking that his turn would come next.

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**Who acts:** cat, Denis, Tephany, turn · **What happens:** not be, begin, agree, like, be, go · **To what, where:** master, fun, other people · **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 (cat, Denis, Tephany, turn), 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:pg3454:32:92
# text = It was not long before Denis began to agree with them, and as he always liked to be master wherever he went, he became afraid of Tephany’s sharp tongue, and instead of laughing as before when she made fun of other people he grew red and uncomfortable, thinking that his turn would come next.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Denis	Denis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
35	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	advcl	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	before	before	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
43	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
57	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	ccomp	_	_
59	next	next	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | cat |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Denis |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | Denis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with jokes *= joke* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **like** | past | Denis |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past | Denis |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **become** | past | Denis |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **laugh** | gerund | Tephany *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **make** | past | Tephany | fun of other people |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product |
| 10 | **grow** | past | Denis | other people *not said here* |  |  |  | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme |
| 11 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Tephany *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 12 | **come** | would | Denis's turn |  |  |  |  | next *property* | 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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