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title: But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had f… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had forgotten to bring in the calf, and must go out to put it in the byre. Who acts: sack, maid. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 81

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But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had forgotten to bring in the calf, and must go out to put it in the byre.

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**Who acts:** sack, maid · **What happens:** have, sit down, say, forget, not bring, go out · **To what, where:** money, byre · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sack, maid), 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:pg503:18:81
# text = But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had forgotten to bring in the calf, and must go out to put it in the byre.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | sack |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forget** | past · perfect | maid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **bring** | to-infinitive | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the calf | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go out** | must |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | money |  | the byre |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in byre=Destination |

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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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