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title: She saw that he was very ill, so put him to bed and took such care o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw that he was very ill, so put him to bed and took such care of him that by and bye he was as strong as ever. Who acts: three, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 26

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She saw that he was very ill, so put him to bed and took such care of him that by and bye he was as strong as ever.

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**Who acts:** three, man · **What happens:** see, be, put, take, care · **To what, where:** man, such care, bye

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, man), 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:pg3454:4:26
# text = She saw that he was very ill, so put him to bed and took such care of him that by and bye he was as strong as ever.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | three |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | three *not said here* |  | man |  |  | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 4 | **take** | past | three *not said here* | such care of man |  |  |  | by bye; that *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | man | bye *not said here* |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **care** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act 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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