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title: So home he went, and happily got into the house and about his busine… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So home he went, and happily got into the house and about his business before Mrs. Cicely made her appearance. Who acts: Lord, Mrs.. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 33

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So home he went, and happily got into the house and about his business before Mrs. Cicely made her appearance.

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**Who acts:** Lord, Mrs. · **What happens:** go, get, make · **To what, where:** house, appearance

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, Mrs.), 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:pg503:29:33
# text = So home he went, and happily got into the house and about his business before Mrs. Cicely made her appearance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Cicely	Cicely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Lord |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | Lord *not said here* |  |  | the house and Lord's business |  | happily *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | Mrs. | Mrs.'s appearance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=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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