--- title: It used to bring the salt tears down his cheeks to see his poor chil… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It used to bring the salt tears down his cheeks to see his poor children neglected and dirty, as they often were, and they’d be bad enough only for a kind neighbour that used to look in whenever she could spare time. Who acts: story, salt, children, kind neighbour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, salt, children, kind neighbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:6:91 # text = It used to bring the salt tears down his cheeks to see his poor children neglected and dirty, as they often were, and they’d be bad enough only for a kind neighbour that used to look in whenever she could spare time. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 neglected neglect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’d have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 enough enough ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl:relcl _ _ 45 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past | story | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **bring down** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* | salt's cheeks | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tear down** | present | the salt | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* | salt's poor children | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **neglect** | participle | | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **be** | past | children *= child* | | | | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | past | children *= child* | | | | | for a kind neighbour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | bad, enough *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **use** | past | a kind neighbour | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 10 | **look** | to-infinitive | a kind neighbour *not said here* | | | | | whenever *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 11 | **spare** | could | wife | | | | time | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/92/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/)