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title: With one of the leaves of the cabbage they made her a coat, and anot… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With one of the leaves of the cabbage they made her a coat, and another served for a waistcoat; but it took two for the wide breeches which were then in fashion. Who acts: cabbage, it, wide breeches. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its depende
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 81

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With one of the leaves of the cabbage they made her a coat, and another served for a waistcoat; but it took two for the wide breeches which were then in fashion.

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**Who acts:** cabbage, it, wide breeches · **What happens:** make, serve, take, be · **To what, where:** coat, Bellah, another, two, fashion

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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, it, wide breeches), 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:pg3454:34:81
# text = With one of the leaves of the cabbage they made her a coat, and another served for a waistcoat; but it took two for the wide breeches which were then in fashion.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | cabbage | a coat | Bellah |  |  | with one of the leaves of the cabbage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary coat=Product |
| 2 | **serve** | participle · passive |  | another |  |  |  | for a waistcoat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for waistcoat=Recipient |
| 3 | **take** | past | it | two |  |  |  | for the wide breeches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent two=Theme for breech=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | past | the wide breeches |  |  | fashion | then |  | tree rules |

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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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