--- title: Soon even this grew to be unnecessary, for a day arrived when, comin… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon even this grew to be unnecessary, for a day arrived when, coming downstairs, she discovered that the house was swept, the furniture polished, the fire lit, and the food ready, so that she had nothing to do except to ring the great bell which summoned the labourers from the fields to come and ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/) / 56 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 56 Soon even this grew to be unnecessary, for a day arrived when, coming downstairs, she discovered that the house was swept, the furniture polished, the fire lit, and the food ready, so that she had nothing to do except to ring the great bell which summoned the labourers from the fields to come and eat it. **Who acts:** this, day, pound, great bell · **What happens:** grow, be, arrive, come, discover, sweep · **To what, where:** house, furniture, nothing, great bell, labourers, fields This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, day, pound, great bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:37:56 # text = Soon even this grew to be unnecessary, for a day arrived when, coming downstairs, she discovered that the house was swept, the furniture polished, the fire lit, and the food ready, so that she had nothing to do except to ring the great bell which summoned the labourers from the fields to come and eat it. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 unnecessary unnecessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 16 downstairs downstairs ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 swept sweep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 polished polish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 lit lit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 43 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 42 obj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl _ _ 46 except except ADP IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 ring ring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 advcl _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 nsubj _ _ 53 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 labourers labourer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obj _ _ 56 from from ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 advcl _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 conj _ _ 63 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | this | | | | | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | unnecessary *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **arrive** | past | a day | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | gerund | a day *not said here* | | | | | downstairs *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **discover** | past | pound | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **sweep** | past · passive | | the house | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme furniture=Destination | | 7 | **polish** | participle | | the furniture and the fire lit *not said here* | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **have** | past | pound | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | pound *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **ring** | to-infinitive | pound *not said here* | the great bell | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | | 11 | **summon** | past | the great bell | the labourers | | the fields | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labourer=Recipient | | 12 | **come** | to-infinitive | the great bell *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 13 | **eat** | infinitive | the great bell *not said here* | bell | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/57/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/)