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title: “In four days from now you will be weeping instead of laughing, beca… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “In four days from now you will be weeping instead of laughing, because there will be hundreds of miles between you and me.” Who acts: four days. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 1

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“In four days from now you will be weeping instead of laughing, because there will be hundreds of miles between you and me.”

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**Who acts:** four days · **What happens:** weep, laugh, be · **To what, where:** hundreds

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four days), 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:pg3282:12:1
# text = “In four days from now you will be weeping instead of laughing, because there will be hundreds of miles between you and me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** *in a quote* | future · progressive | four days |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | four days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | hundreds |  |  |  | of miles between you | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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