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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 16

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The queen, his mother, fell ill soon after his birth, and as she could not take care of him herself she sent him to a woman she knew up in the mountains, so that he might learn to go out in all weathers, and bear heat and cold, and grow tall and strong.

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**Who acts:** queen, boy · **What happens:** fall, not take, send, know up, learn, go out · **To what, where:** care, boy, mountains, weathers, heat

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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 (queen, boy), 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:pg3454:38:16
# text = The queen, his mother, fell ill soon after his birth, and as she could not take care of him herself she sent him to a woman she knew up in the mountains, so that he might learn to go out in all weathers, and bear heat and cold, and grow tall and strong.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
20	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	41	mark	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	out	out	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	weathers	weather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
51	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
57	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the queen |  |  |  | after boy's birth | ill, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **take** | could | queen | care |  |  |  | of boy; queen *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **send** | past | queen | boy |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **know up** | past | queen |  |  | the mountains |  | to a woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **learn** | might | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go out** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  | all weathers |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bear** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | heat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
| 8 | **grow** | present |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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