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title: Not long afterward there was again great dearth in the land, and the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long afterward there was again great dearth in the land, and the children heard their mother address their father thus in bed one night: “Everything is eaten up once more; we have only half a loaf in the house, and when that’s done it’s all up with us. Who acts: children, long great dearth, we. 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 42

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Not long afterward there was again great dearth in the land, and the children heard their mother address their father thus in bed one night: “Everything is eaten up once more; we have only half a loaf in the house, and when that’s done it’s all up with us.

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**Who acts:** children, long great dearth, we · **What happens:** be, hear, address, eat up, have, do · **To what, where:** long great dearth, land, mother, father, bed, Everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, long great dearth, we), 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:pg503:35:42
# text = Not long afterward there was again great dearth in the land, and the children heard their mother address their father thus in bed one night: “Everything is eaten up once more; we have only half a loaf in the house, and when that’s done it’s all up with us.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
3	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dearth	dearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	address	address	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	41	det:predet	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
53	all	all	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	up	up	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | long great dearth |  | the land |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the children | children's mother |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **address** | present | long great dearth | children's father |  | bed | night |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat up** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Everything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | half loaf |  | the house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | 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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