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title: Wicked traitress, Barne Riou, Our poor toes are burned by you; Now w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked traitress, Barne Riou, Our poor toes are burned by you; Now we hurry from your hall-- Bad luck light upon you all. Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 11

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Wicked traitress, Barne Riou, Our poor toes are burned by you; Now we hurry from your hall-- Bad luck light upon you all.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** burn, hurry · **To what, where:** poor toes, hall

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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 (you, we), 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:pg3454:38:11
# text = Wicked traitress, Barne Riou, Our poor toes are burned by you; Now we hurry from your hall-- Bad luck light upon you all.
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	traitress	traitress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Barne	Barne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	Riou	Riou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hurry	hurry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	conj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present · passive | you | Our poor toes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hurry** | present | we |  |  | your hall and Bad luck light | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hall=Trajectory |

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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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