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title: But he took none of them, neither short nor tall, dark nor fair, plu… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he took none of them, neither short nor tall, dark nor fair, plump nor thin, till at the last the crop-headed girl came out. Who acts: mind, headed girl. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 128

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But he took none of them, neither short nor tall, dark nor fair, plump nor thin, till at the last the crop-headed girl came out.

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**Who acts:** mind, headed girl · **What happens:** take, head, come out · **To what, where:** none

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, headed girl), 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:pg3454:8:128
# text = But he took none of them, neither short nor tall, dark nor fair, plump nor thin, till at the last the crop-headed girl came out.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc:preconj	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | mind | none |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme |
| 2 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come out** | past | the headed girl |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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