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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 115

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There they were married the next day, but instead of setting up housekeeping with the little cow and pig to fatten that they had so long wished for, they were able to buy lands for miles round for themselves, and gave each man who had been delivered from the Groac’h a small farm, where he lived happily to the end of his days.

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**Who acts:** cabbage, man · **What happens:** marry, set up, housekeep, fatten, wish, be · **To what, where:** cabbage, lands, man, Groac’h

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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 (cabbage, man), 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:pg3454:34:115
# text = There they were married the next day, but instead of setting up housekeeping with the little cow and pig to fatten that they had so long wished for, they were able to buy lands for miles round for themselves, and gave each man who had been delivered from the Groac’h a small farm, where he lived happily to the end of his days.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	housekeeping	housekeep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	fatten	fatten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	round	round	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
45	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	60	advmod	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	_
61	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
62	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | cabbage |  | there | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **set up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **housekeep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the little cow and pig | tree rules |
| 4 | **fatten** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **wish** | past · perfect · passive |  | cabbage |  |  |  | long *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | cabbage |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **buy** | to-infinitive | cabbage *not said here* | lands |  |  |  | for miles; for cabbage; round *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent land=Theme for mile=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **give** | past |  | each man |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 9 | **deliver** | past · perfect · passive |  | each man |  | the Groac’h |  | a small farm *obl* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from groac'h=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **live** | past | man |  |  |  | to the end of man's days | happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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