--- title: ‘A stranger, my lord! no stranger ever comes here, not even the sun!… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘A stranger, my lord! no stranger ever comes here, not even the sun!’ and the king’s wife laughed gaily as she went up to the giant and stroked the huge hand which hung down by his side. Who acts: stranger, wife, huge hand. 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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 (stranger, wife, huge hand), 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:pg3454:9:104 # text = ‘A stranger, my lord! no stranger ever comes here, not even the sun!’ and the king’s wife laughed gaily as she went up to the giant and stroked the huge hand which hung down by his side. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 11 advmod _ _ 11 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 gaily gaily ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 down down ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | no stranger | the sun | | here | ever | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **laugh** | past | the king's wife | | | | | gaily *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go up** | past | wife | | | | | to the giant | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **stroke** | past | wife *not said here* | the huge hand | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer | | 5 | **hang down** | past | the huge hand | | | | | by king's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | 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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/105/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/)