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title: The same thing took place every day, and never had the cow-house bee… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The same thing took place every day, and never had the cow-house been so clean nor the cows so fat. Who acts: same thing, cows. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 53

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The same thing took place every day, and never had the cow-house been so clean nor the cows so fat.

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**Who acts:** same thing, cows · **What happens:** take, not have, be · **To what, where:** place, cow house

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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 (same thing, cows), 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:pg3454:37:53
# text = The same thing took place every day, and never had the cow-house been so clean nor the cows so fat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the same thing | place |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past |  | the cow house |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the cows |  |  |  |  |  | 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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