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title: When he sat up and rubbed his eyes, there was no wife by his side, a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he sat up and rubbed his eyes, there was no wife by his side, and when he asked the little ones what was become of their mother, they said they saw the room full of nice little men and women, dressed in white and red and green, and their mother in the middle of them, going out by the door as if
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 88

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When he sat up and rubbed his eyes, there was no wife by his side, and when he asked the little ones what was become of their mother, they said they saw the room full of nice little men and women, dressed in white and red and green, and their mother in the middle of them, going out by the door as if she was walking in her sleep.

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**Who acts:** husband, eyes, wife · **What happens:** sit up, rub, be, ask, become, say · **To what, where:** wife, eyes, little ones, room, white, sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, eyes, wife), 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:pg3454:6:88
# text = When he sat up and rubbed his eyes, there was no wife by his side, and when he asked the little ones what was become of their mother, they said they saw the room full of nice little men and women, dressed in white and red and green, and their mother in the middle of them, going out by the door as if she was walking in her sleep.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
64	out	out	ADP	RP	_	63	compound:prt	_	_
65	by	by	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
68	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	72	mark	_	_
69	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	72	mark	_	_
70	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
71	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	72	aux	_	_
72	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
73	in	in	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	75	nmod:poss	_	_
75	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | past | husband | no wife |  |  |  | by husband's side | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme by side=Location |
| 2 | **rub** | past | husband *not said here* | husband's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | husband *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | husband | the little ones |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 5 | **become** | past · passive |  | the little ones |  |  |  | of eyes's mother | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **see** | past | eyes *= eye* | the room |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus |
| 8 | **dress** | participle |  | the room *not said here* |  | white |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **go out** | gerund | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the door | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **walk** | past · progressive | wife |  |  | wife's sleep |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory |
| 11 | **sleep** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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