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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 123

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This day everything befell as on the two other days, but when she reached the small house, the woman bade her keep awake, and if the hoodie flew into the room, to try to seize him.

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**Who acts:** sun, woman, hoodie · **What happens:** reach, bade, keep, fly, try, seize · **To what, where:** small house, sun, room, hoodie

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, woman, hoodie), 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:pg3454:36:123
# text = This day everything befell as on the two other days, but when she reached the small house, the woman bade her keep awake, and if the hoodie flew into the room, to try to seize him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
4	befell	befell	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | sun | the small house |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **bade** | past | the woman | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the hoodie |  |  |  |  | into the room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result |
| 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | the hoodie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **seize** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the hoodie *not said here* | hoodie |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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