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title: ‘Come lawyer, come miller, come tailor, come singer!’ cried she, hol… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Come lawyer, come miller, come tailor, come singer!’ cried she, holding out a net of steel; and at each summons a fish appeared and jumped into the net. Who acts: fish. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 30

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‘Come lawyer, come miller, come tailor, come singer!’ cried she, holding out a net of steel; and at each summons a fish appeared and jumped into the net.

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**Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** come, cry, hold out, summon, appear, jump · **To what, where:** lawyer, miller, tailor, singer, net, each

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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 (fish), 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:pg3454:34:30
# text = ‘Come lawyer, come miller, come tailor, come singer!’ cried she, holding out a net of steel; and at each summons a fish appeared and jumped into the net.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
3	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	_
28	summons	summon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  | lawyer |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lawyer=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  | miller |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location miller=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  | tailor |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tailor=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive |  | singer |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location singer=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | tailor |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 6 | **hold out** | gerund |  | a net of steel |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme |
| 7 | **summon** | present |  |  |  | each |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **appear** | past | a fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **jump** | past | a fish *not said here* |  |  | the net |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into net=Destination |

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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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