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title: That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their help, grew poorer and poorer, and at last died of misery, while Barbaik was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix. Who acts: toes, Jegu, Barbaik. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 12

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That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their help, grew poorer and poorer, and at last died of misery, while Barbaik was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix.

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**Who acts:** toes, Jegu, Barbaik · **What happens:** leave, grow, die, be, find, help · **To what, where:** country, last, work, market, Morlaix

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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 (toes, Jegu, Barbaik), 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:pg3454:38:12
# text = That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their help, grew poorer and poorer, and at last died of misery, while Barbaik was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Morlaix	Morlaix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | toes *= toe* | the country |  |  | evening |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Theme for ever=Recipient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Jegu |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | past | toes *= toe* *not said here* |  |  | last |  | of misery | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of misery=Causer |
| 4 | **is** | past | Barbaik |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | Barbaik *not said here* | work |  | the market of Morlaix |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |
| 6 | **help** |  | toes *= toe* |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **market** |  |  | Morlaix |  |  |  |  | nom market «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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