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title: So he built in the neighbourhood a little shrine, with a room or two… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he built in the neighbourhood a little shrine, with a room or two added to it, and a small courtyard closely walled up; and, when all was ready, besought the jogi to occupy it, and to receive no other visitors except himself and his queen and such pupils as the jogi might choose, who would hand d
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 39

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So he built in the neighbourhood a little shrine, with a room or two added to it, and a small courtyard closely walled up; and, when all was ready, besought the jogi to occupy it, and to receive no other visitors except himself and his queen and such pupils as the jogi might choose, who would hand down his teaching.

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**Who acts:** rajah, all, jogi · **What happens:** build, add, wall up, be, beseech, occupy · **To what, where:** little shrine, neighbourhood, room, small courtyard, jogi, other visitors

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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 (rajah, all, jogi), 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:pg3454:4:39
# text = So he built in the neighbourhood a little shrine, with a room or two added to it, and a small courtyard closely walled up; and, when all was ready, besought the jogi to occupy it, and to receive no other visitors except himself and his queen and such pupils as the jogi might choose, who would hand down his teaching.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	jogi	jogi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	occupy	occupy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
45	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
46	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	except	except	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	jogi	jogi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
59	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	64	nsubj	_	_
63	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	conj	_	_
65	down	down	ADP	RP	_	64	compound:prt	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | rajah | a little shrine |  | the neighbourhood |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Product |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a room *not said here* | room |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **wall up** | participle · passive |  | a small courtyard |  |  |  | closely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **beseech** | past | all *not said here* | the jogi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **occupy** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* | Jogi |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 7 | **receive** | to-infinitive | rajah *not said here* | no other visitors |  |  |  | except rajah | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme |
| 8 | **choose** | might | the jogi |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **hand down** | would |  | rajah's teaching |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teaching=Theme |
| 10 | **teach** |  | rajah |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=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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