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title: ‘One day as she was tasting quite a new kind of grass and wondering… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘One day as she was tasting quite a new kind of grass and wondering if it was as good as what she had had for dinner the day before, a hare happened to pass by. Who acts: beast, kind, hare. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree an
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 101

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‘One day as she was tasting quite a new kind of grass and wondering if it was as good as what she had had for dinner the day before, a hare happened to pass by.

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**Who acts:** beast, kind, hare · **What happens:** taste, wonder, be, have, happen, pass by · **To what, where:** new kind

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, kind, hare), 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:pg3454:5:101
# text = ‘One day as she was tasting quite a new kind of grass and wondering if it was as good as what she had had for dinner the day before, a hare happened to pass by.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	tasting	taste	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | past · progressive | beast | quite new kind of grass |  |  | day |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme kind=Attribute |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | kind |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past · perfect | beast |  |  |  | day | for dinner; before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **happen** | past | a hare |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass by** | to-infinitive | a hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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