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title: Now this was Saturday, and on Saturday evenings Matte never set the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this was Saturday, and on Saturday evenings Matte never set the herring-net, for he did not fish on Sunday. Who acts: this, Saturday, delightful. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 87

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Now this was Saturday, and on Saturday evenings Matte never set the herring-net, for he did not fish on Sunday.

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**Who acts:** this, Saturday, delightful · **What happens:** be, not set, not fish · **To what, where:** Saturday, herring net

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Saturday, delightful), 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:pg3454:23:87
# text = Now this was Saturday, and on Saturday evenings Matte never set the herring-net, for he did not fish on Sunday.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
10	Matte	Matte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	fish	fish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this | Saturday |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **set** | past | Saturday *not said here* | the herring net |  |  | evening |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient net=Result |
| 3 | **not** **fish** | past · do-support | delightful |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 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.

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