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title: ‘Become in body what you are in soul!’ cried she, and in an instant… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Become in body what you are in soul!’ cried she, and in an instant the lovely fairy of the sea was a toad, horrible to look upon. Who acts: you, lovely fairy. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 98

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‘Become in body what you are in soul!’ cried she, and in an instant the lovely fairy of the sea was a toad, horrible to look upon.

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**Who acts:** you, lovely fairy · **What happens:** become, be, cry, look · **To what, where:** body, soul, Groac’h, toad, instant

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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 (you, lovely fairy), 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:pg3454:34:98
# text = ‘Become in body what you are in soul!’ cried she, and in an instant the lovely fairy of the sea was a toad, horrible to look upon.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	conj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in body *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in body=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  | soul |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Groac’h *= groac'h* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the lovely fairy of the sea | a toad |  | a instant |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the lovely fairy of the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | the lovely fairy of the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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