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description: Still he would not leave the farm, and look for work elsewhere, as he might have done, for then he would never see Barbaik at all, and what was life worth to him without that? Who acts: Jegu. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 20

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Still he would not leave the farm, and look for work elsewhere, as he might have done, for then he would never see Barbaik at all, and what was life worth to him without that?

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**Who acts:** Jegu · **What happens:** not leave, look, do, not see, be · **To what, where:** farm, Barbaik, all, life

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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 (Jegu), 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:pg3454:37:20
# text = Still he would not leave the farm, and look for work elsewhere, as he might have done, for then he would never see Barbaik at all, and what was life worth to him without that?
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
35	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	without	without	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | would | Jegu | the farm |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | Jegu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for work; elsewhere *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | might · perfect | Jegu |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **see** | would | Jegu | Barbaik |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barbaik=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | life |  |  |  |  | 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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