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title: It was already beginning to be late in the day, and to church they m… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was already beginning to be late in the day, and to church they must and would go, so everyone who was in the palace was in a state of distress. Who acts: coach, brother. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 12

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It was already beginning to be late in the day, and to church they must and would go, so everyone who was in the palace was in a state of distress.

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**Who acts:** coach, brother · **What happens:** begin, be, go · **To what, where:** everyone, church, state

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coach, brother), 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:pg503:19:12
# text = It was already beginning to be late in the day, and to church they must and would go, so everyone who was in the palace was in a state of distress.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · progressive | coach | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | coach *not said here* |  |  |  | day | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | would | brother |  |  | church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  | a state |  | in the palace; of distress | tree rules |

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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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