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title: But from that time no work has been done upon it, save that every ev… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But from that time no work has been done upon it, save that every evening I have pecked at it, till now there is not so much as the size of a nut remaining thereof. Who acts: I, much, nut. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree an
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 101

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But from that time no work has been done upon it, save that every evening I have pecked at it, till now there is not so much as the size of a nut remaining thereof.

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**Who acts:** I, much, nut · **What happens:** do, peck, be, remain

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, much, nut), 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:pg3454:39:101
# text = But from that time no work has been done upon it, save that every evening I have pecked at it, till now there is not so much as the size of a nut remaining thereof.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	save	save	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | time | upon work | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **peck** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | evening | at work | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | present | much as the size of a nut |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **remain** | gerund | a nut *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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