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title: ‘She comes every Saturday to wash her hair, and in the vessel where… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘She comes every Saturday to wash her hair, and in the vessel where she washes she leaves all her rings, and never does she so much as send a messenger to fetch them.’ Who acts: Olwen. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 102

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‘She comes every Saturday to wash her hair, and in the vessel where she washes she leaves all her rings, and never does she so much as send a messenger to fetch them.’

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**Who acts:** Olwen · **What happens:** come, wash, leave, send, fetch · **To what, where:** hair, vessel, rings, messenger, messengers

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olwen), 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:pg3454:38:102
# text = ‘She comes every Saturday to wash her hair, and in the vessel where she washes she leaves all her rings, and never does she so much as send a messenger to fetch them.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Olwen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | to-infinitive | Olwen *not said here* | Olwen's hair |  | the vessel |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **wash** | present | Olwen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | present | Olwen | Olwen's rings |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | present · do-support |  | a messenger |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 6 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | messengers *= messenger* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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