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title: When all these things were ready the boy bade farewell to the witch… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When all these things were ready the boy bade farewell to the witch and set out. Who acts: things, witch. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 1

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When all these things were ready the boy bade farewell to the witch and set out.

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**Who acts:** things, witch · **What happens:** be, set out · **To what, where:** boy bade

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, witch), 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:pg3282:7:1
# text = When all these things were ready the boy bade farewell to the witch and set out.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
10	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all things | the boy bade |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set out** | infinitive | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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