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title: ‘My name is Houarn,’ he answered, ‘Lanillis is my home, and I am try… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My name is Houarn,’ he answered, ‘Lanillis is my home, and I am trying to earn enough money to buy a little cow and a pig to fatten.’ Who acts: name, Houarn, Lanillis, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 13

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‘My name is Houarn,’ he answered, ‘Lanillis is my home, and I am trying to earn enough money to buy a little cow and a pig to fatten.’

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**Who acts:** name, Houarn, Lanillis, I, My · **What happens:** be, answer, try, earn, buy, fatten · **To what, where:** Houarn, home, enough money, little cow

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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 (name, Houarn, Lanillis, I), 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:pg3454:34:13
# text = ‘My name is Houarn,’ he answered, ‘Lanillis is my home, and I am trying to earn enough money to buy a little cow and a pig to fatten.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Lanillis	Lanillis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	fatten	fatten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | My name | Houarn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Houarn |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Lanillis | my home |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **earn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | enough money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 6 | **buy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a little cow and a pig |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 7 | **fatten** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **name** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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