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title: When their mother heard Tephany’s request to be given a bed the good… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When their mother heard Tephany’s request to be given a bed the good wife’s heart softened, and she was just going to invite her inside, when the young men, whose heads were turned by the girl’s beauty, began to quarrel as to which should do most for her. Who acts: mother, heart, beauty, Tephany. A 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 22

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When their mother heard Tephany’s request to be given a bed the good wife’s heart softened, and she was just going to invite her inside, when the young men, whose heads were turned by the girl’s beauty, began to quarrel as to which should do most for her.

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**Who acts:** mother, heart, beauty, Tephany · **What happens:** hear, give, soften, go, invite, turn · **To what, where:** request, bed, heart, young men, most

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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 (mother, heart, beauty, Tephany), 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:pg3454:33:22
# text = When their mother heard Tephany’s request to be given a bed the good wife’s heart softened, and she was just going to invite her inside, when the young men, whose heads were turned by the girl’s beauty, began to quarrel as to which should do most for her.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	softened	soften	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	38	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
51	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
53	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	obj	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | people's mother | Tephany's request |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer request=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive · passive |  | a bed |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: bed=Theme |
| 3 | **soften** | past | the good wife's heart |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **invite** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  | heart |  |  | inside *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **turn** | past · passive | the girl's beauty | the young men and the young men and the young men's heads's heads |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result |
| 7 | **begin** | past | the good wife's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **quarrel** | to-infinitive | the good wife's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | should |  | most |  |  |  | for Tephany | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |
| 10 | **request** |  | Tephany |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication 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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