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title: When their pockets were full, Bellah ordered her stick to become a w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When their pockets were full, Bellah ordered her stick to become a winged carriage, large enough to bear them and the men they had rescued back to Lanillis. Who acts: pockets, Bellah, stick. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 114

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When their pockets were full, Bellah ordered her stick to become a winged carriage, large enough to bear them and the men they had rescued back to Lanillis.

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**Who acts:** pockets, Bellah, stick · **What happens:** be, order, become, wing, bear, rescue · **To what, where:** stick, winged carriage, cabbage, men

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pockets, Bellah, stick), 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:pg3454:34:114
# text = When their pockets were full, Bellah ordered her stick to become a winged carriage, large enough to bear them and the men they had rescued back to Lanillis.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Lanillis	Lanillis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | cabbage's pockets |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | past | Bellah | Bellah's stick |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent stick=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **become** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bellah's stick *not said here* | a winged carriage |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bear** | to-infinitive | Bellah's stick *not said here* | cabbage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **rescue** | past · perfect · passive |  | the men |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=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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