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title: This transformation rather frightened Jegu, but the brownie bade him… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This transformation rather frightened Jegu, but the brownie bade him have no fears, for he would not do him any harm; indeed, he hoped that Jegu might find him of some use. Who acts: transformation, Jegu. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, with its de
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 32

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This transformation rather frightened Jegu, but the brownie bade him have no fears, for he would not do him any harm; indeed, he hoped that Jegu might find him of some use.

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**Who acts:** transformation, Jegu · **What happens:** frighten, have, not do, hope, find · **To what, where:** Jegu, brownie bade, transformation · **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 (transformation, 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:pg3454:37:32
# text = This transformation rather frightened Jegu, but the brownie bade him have no fears, for he would not do him any harm; indeed, he hoped that Jegu might find him of some use.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	brownie	brownie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past | this transformation | Jegu |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jegu=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | the brownie bade |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **do** | would | transformation | Jegu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hope** | past | transformation |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | might | Jegu | transformation |  |  |  | of some use | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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