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title: And by-and-by it was spring once more, and time for the fisher-folk… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And by-and-by it was spring once more, and time for the fisher-folk to sail from the mainland. Who acts: food. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 45

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And by-and-by it was spring once more, and time for the fisher-folk to sail from the mainland.

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**Who acts:** food · **What happens:** be, sail · **To what, where:** mainland

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food), 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:pg3282:20:45
# text = And by-and-by it was spring once more, and time for the fisher-folk to sail from the mainland.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | food |  |  |  | by spring and time for the fisher folk |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** | to-infinitive | food *not said here* |  |  | the mainland |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from mainland=Trajectory |

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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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