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title: In her eyes he was as ugly and awkward as ever, but he would certain… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In her eyes he was as ugly and awkward as ever, but he would certainly make a most useful husband, and she could sleep every morning till breakfast time, just like a young lady, and as for the rest of the day, it would not be half long enough for all she meant to do. Who acts: thing, Barbaik, rest. 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 64

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In her eyes he was as ugly and awkward as ever, but he would certainly make a most useful husband, and she could sleep every morning till breakfast time, just like a young lady, and as for the rest of the day, it would not be half long enough for all she meant to do.

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**Who acts:** thing, Barbaik, rest · **What happens:** be, make, sleep, not be, mean, do · **To what, where:** eyes, useful husband

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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 (thing, Barbaik, rest), 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:pg3454:37:64
# text = In her eyes he was as ugly and awkward as ever, but he would certainly make a most useful husband, and she could sleep every morning till breakfast time, just like a young lady, and as for the rest of the day, it would not be half long enough for all she meant to do.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
49	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	cop	_	_
52	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	53	advmod	_	_
53	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	58	advmod	_	_
54	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	obl	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | thing |  |  | Barbaik's eyes |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | would | thing | a useful husband |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Product |
| 4 | **sleep** | could | Barbaik |  |  |  | morning; time |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for all; enough, half, long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | would | rest |  |  |  |  | as the rest of the day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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