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title: Thinking that this must be prepared for someone who was expected, he… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thinking that this must be prepared for someone who was expected, he sat down to wait till he should come, and very soon fell into a sweet sleep. Who acts: silence. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 37

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Thinking that this must be prepared for someone who was expected, he sat down to wait till he should come, and very soon fell into a sweet sleep.

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**Who acts:** silence · **What happens:** think, prepare, expect, sit down, wait, come · **To what, where:** this, sweet sleep

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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 (silence), 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:pg503:14:37
# text = Thinking that this must be prepared for someone who was expected, he sat down to wait till he should come, and very soon fell into a sweet sleep.
1	Thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prepare** | must · passive |  | this |  |  |  | for someone | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for someone=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **expect** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | silence |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wait** | to-infinitive | silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | should | silence |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fall** | past | silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a sweet sleep *result*; soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |

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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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