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title: The morn had scarcely dawned when Mr. Fitzwarren arose to count over… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The morn had scarcely dawned when Mr. Fitzwarren arose to count over the cash and settle the business for that day. Who acts: Fitzwarren. 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 55

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The morn had scarcely dawned when Mr. Fitzwarren arose to count over the cash and settle the business for that day.

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**Who acts:** Fitzwarren · **What happens:** dawn, arise, count, settle · **To what, where:** morn, cash, business

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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 (Fitzwarren), 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:pg503:29:55
# text = The morn had scarcely dawned when Mr. Fitzwarren arose to count over the cash and settle the business for that day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past · perfect · passive |  | the morn |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **arise** | past | Fitzwarren  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren  Mr. *not said here* |  |  | the cash |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **settle** | infinitive | Fitzwarren  Mr. *not said here* | the business |  |  | day |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme business=Location |

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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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