--- title: Whenever they met they repeated their grievances, and at length Houa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Whenever they met they repeated their grievances, and at length Houarn’s patience was exhausted, and one morning he came to Bellah and told her that he was going away to seek his fortune. Who acts: cousins, Houarn. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cousins, Houarn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:33:84 # text = Whenever they met they repeated their grievances, and at length Houarn’s patience was exhausted, and one morning he came to Bellah and told her that he was going away to seek his fortune. 1 Whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 repeated repeat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 grievances grievance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 12 Houarn Houarn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 exhausted exhaust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Bellah Bellah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | cousins *= cousin* | | | | | whenever *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **repeat** | past | cousins *= cousin* | cousins's grievances | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grievance=Eventuality | | 3 | **exhaust** | past · passive | | Houarn's patience | | length | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **come** | past | Houarn | | | Bellah | morning | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bellah=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Houarn *not said here* | | Bellah | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go away** | past · progressive | Houarn | | | | | away *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Houarn *not said here* | Houarn's fortune | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/85/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/)