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title: Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasur… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasures, but no one had ever come back. Who acts: Many, one, fairy. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 105

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Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasures, but no one had ever come back.

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**Who acts:** Many, one, fairy · **What happens:** go, try, get, come back, possess, treasure · **To what, where:** island, possession, treasures

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, one, fairy), 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:pg3454:33:105
# text = Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasures, but no one had ever come back.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Many |  |  | the island |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | Many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | Many *not said here* | possession of fairy's treasures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come back** | past | no one |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | fairy's treasures |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **treasure** |  | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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