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title: Well, it happened soon after that the young lord of the castle was c… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, it happened soon after that the young lord of the castle was coming home, and there was to be a grand ball in honour of the occasion. Who acts: it, young lord. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 85

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Well, it happened soon after that the young lord of the castle was coming home, and there was to be a grand ball in honour of the occasion.

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**Who acts:** it, young lord · **What happens:** happen, come, be, honour · **To what, where:** grand ball, honour, occasion

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, young lord), 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:pg14241:31:85
# text = Well, it happened soon after that the young lord of the castle was coming home, and there was to be a grand ball in honour of the occasion.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past · progressive | the young lord of the castle |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a grand ball |  | honour of the occasion |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **honour** |  |  | the occasion |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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