--- title: Well, all in good time she was minding her family and her business a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Well, all in good time she was minding her family and her business again; and I’ll go bail, after the fright she got, she spent more time on her knees, and avoided fairy men all the days of the week, and particularly on Sunday. Who acts: wife, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I), 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:pg3454:6:129 # text = Well, all in good time she was minding her family and her business again; and I’ll go bail, after the fright she got, she spent more time on her knees, and avoided fairy men all the days of the week, and particularly on Sunday. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 20 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 conj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 minding mind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 21 bail bail NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 avoided avoid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 39 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 43 det:predet _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 49 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mind** | past · progressive | wife | wife's family and wife's business | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 2 | **go** | future | I | bail | | | sunday | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bail=Theme | | 3 | **get** | past | wife | the fright *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus | | 4 | **spend** | past | wife | | | | time | on wife's knees *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on knee=Goal | | 5 | **avoid** | past | wife *not said here* | fairy men | | | day | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent man=Location | 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 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/128/) - next →: [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/1/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/)