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title: But in those days, as in these, beggars abounded, and through every… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in those days, as in these, beggars abounded, and through every village he passed they followed Houarn in crowds, mistaking him for a gentleman, because there were no holes in his clothes. Who acts: beggars, Houarn, holes. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 98

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But in those days, as in these, beggars abounded, and through every village he passed they followed Houarn in crowds, mistaking him for a gentleman, because there were no holes in his clothes.

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**Who acts:** beggars, Houarn, holes · **What happens:** abound, pass, follow, mistake, be · **To what, where:** village, Houarn

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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 (beggars, Houarn, holes), 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:pg3454:33:98
# text = But in those days, as in these, beggars abounded, and through every village he passed they followed Houarn in crowds, mistaking him for a gentleman, because there were no holes in his clothes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	abounded	abound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	mistaking	mistake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** | past | this beggars |  |  |  | day |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Houarn | every village *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Trajectory |
| 3 | **follow** | past | beggars *= beggar* | Houarn |  | every village |  | in crowds | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent houarn=Theme through village=Trajectory |
| 4 | **mistake** | gerund | this beggars *not said here* | Houarn |  |  |  | for a gentleman | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past | no holes in Houarn's clothes |  |  | there |  |  | 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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