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title: She was one Thursday at the market of Enniscorthy, when what did she… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was one Thursday at the market of Enniscorthy, when what did she see walking among the tubs of butter but the Dark Man, very hungry-looking, and taking a scoop out of one tub and out of another. Who acts: nurse, one Thursday. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy B
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 3

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She was one Thursday at the market of Enniscorthy, when what did she see walking among the tubs of butter but the Dark Man, very hungry-looking, and taking a scoop out of one tub and out of another.

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**Who acts:** nurse, one Thursday · **What happens:** be, see, walk, look, take, market · **To what, where:** one Thursday, market, tubs, scoop, one tub, Enniscorthy

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, one Thursday), 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:pg3454:7:3
# text = She was one Thursday at the market of Enniscorthy, when what did she see walking among the tubs of butter but the Dark Man, very hungry-looking, and taking a scoop out of one tub and out of another.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Enniscorthy	Enniscorthy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
16	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tubs	tub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	scoop	scoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | nurse | one Thursday |  | the market of Enniscorthy |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · do-support | nurse | one Thursday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | one Thursday *not said here* |  |  | the tubs of butter but the Dark Man |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tub=Trajectory |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | nurse *not said here* | a scoop |  | one tub |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent scoop=Theme out tub=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **market** |  |  | Enniscorthy |  |  |  |  | nom market «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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