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title: Now amongst all the young men who wanted to marry Barbaik, the one w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now amongst all the young men who wanted to marry Barbaik, the one whose heart was most set on her was her father’s head man, but as his manners were rough and he was exceedingly ugly she would have nothing to say to him, and, what was worse, often made fun of him with the rest. Who acts: heart, Bar
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 18

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Now amongst all the young men who wanted to marry Barbaik, the one whose heart was most set on her was her father’s head man, but as his manners were rough and he was exceedingly ugly she would have nothing to say to him, and, what was worse, often made fun of him with the rest.

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**Who acts:** heart, Barbaik, manners, man · **What happens:** want, marry, be, set, have, say · **To what, where:** head man, nothing, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Barbaik, manners, man), 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:pg3454:37:18
# text = Now amongst all the young men who wanted to marry Barbaik, the one whose heart was most set on her was her father’s head man, but as his manners were rough and he was exceedingly ugly she would have nothing to say to him, and, what was worse, often made fun of him with the rest.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nmod	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	42	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	often	often	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	amod	_	_
57	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nmod	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  |  |  |  | now | amongst all young men | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | most *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on Barbaik | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on she=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Barbaik | Barbaik's father's head man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | man's manners |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | exceedingly, ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | would | Barbaik | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Barbaik *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 10 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | made fun of man with the rest *obl*; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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