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title: All the sons and daughters at once thought that their poverty was at… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the sons and daughters at once thought that their poverty was at an end, and wanted to set out directly for the town; but their father, who was more prudent, begged them to wait a little, and, though it was harvest time, and he could ill be spared, determined to go himself first, to make inquiri
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 18

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All the sons and daughters at once thought that their poverty was at an end, and wanted to set out directly for the town; but their father, who was more prudent, begged them to wait a little, and, though it was harvest time, and he could ill be spared, determined to go himself first, to make inquiries.

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**Who acts:** sons, poverty, father · **What happens:** think, be, want, set out, beg, wait · **To what, where:** end, sons, little, harvest time, ill, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, poverty, father), 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:pg503:14:18
# text = All the sons and daughters at once thought that their poverty was at an end, and wanted to set out directly for the town; but their father, who was more prudent, begged them to wait a little, and, though it was harvest time, and he could ill be spared, determined to go himself first, to make inquiries.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
36	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
54	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	conj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	60	obj	_	_
62	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	to	to	PART	TO	_	65	mark	_	_
65	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	conj	_	_
66	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | all sons and daughters |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | sons's poverty |  |  |  | at a end |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | past | all sons and daughters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **set out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all sons and daughters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the town; directly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | sons's father |  |  |  |  | prudent *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | sons's father |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sons's father *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past | poverty | harvest time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **spare** | could · passive |  | ill |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |
| 10 | **go** | to-infinitive |  | father |  |  |  | first *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 11 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | inquiries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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