--- title: Happy indeed were they to be together again, and little did they min… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Happy indeed were they to be together again, and little did they mind that the hill of poison took long to cross, for she had to go some way forwards, and then throw the horse-shoes back for him to put on. Who acts: spells, hill, cook. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spells, hill, cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:37:10 # text = Happy indeed were they to be together again, and little did they mind that the hill of poison took long to cross, for she had to go some way forwards, and then throw the horse-shoes back for him to put on. 1 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 1 conj _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 forwards forwards ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 42 for for SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 46 on on ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | spells *= spell* | | | | again | together *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mind** | past · do-support | spells *= spell* | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **take** | past | the hill of poison | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | the hill of poison *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | hill | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | hill *not said here* | some way | | | | forwards *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **throw** | infinitive | spells *= spell* *not said here* | the horse shoes | | | then | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | | 8 | **put on** | to-infinitive | cook | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/11/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/)