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title: Kilweh was quite happy with his nurse, and ran races and climbed hil… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Kilweh was quite happy with his nurse, and ran races and climbed hills with the children who were his playfellows, and in the winter, when the snow lay on the ground, sometimes a man with a harp would stop and beg for shelter, and in return would sing them songs of strange things that had happened i
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 17

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Kilweh was quite happy with his nurse, and ran races and climbed hills with the children who were his playfellows, and in the winter, when the snow lay on the ground, sometimes a man with a harp would stop and beg for shelter, and in return would sing them songs of strange things that had happened in the years gone by.

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**Who acts:** Kilweh, snow, man, strange things · **What happens:** be, run, climb, lie, stop, beg · **To what, where:** races, hills, ground, playfellows, return, years

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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 (Kilweh, snow, man, strange things), 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:pg3454:38:17
# text = Kilweh was quite happy with his nurse, and ran races and climbed hills with the children who were his playfellows, and in the winter, when the snow lay on the ground, sometimes a man with a harp would stop and beg for shelter, and in return would sing them songs of strange things that had happened in the years gone by.
1	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	playfellows	playfellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj	_	_
60	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	58	acl:relcl	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	_
65	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	64	acl	_	_
66	by	by	ADP	IN	_	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Kilweh |  |  |  |  | with Kilweh's nurse; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past |  | races |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |
| 3 | **climb** | past |  | hills |  |  |  | with the children | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hill=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past | the snow |  |  |  | winter |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stop** | would | a man with a harp |  |  | the ground |  | sometimes *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | infinitive | a man with a harp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for shelter | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for shelter=Topic |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | would | a man with a harp *not said here* | playfellows *= playfellow* |  | return |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme |
| 8 | **happen** | past · perfect | strange things |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **go by** | participle |  | the years *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **sing** |  | strange things |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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