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title: So all went well and happily for a time, but then she began to be ve… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So all went well and happily for a time, but then she began to be very sad and sorrowful, for all day long she had to go about alone; and she did so wish to go home to her father and mother and brothers and sisters. Who acts: door, day. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 24

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So all went well and happily for a time, but then she began to be very sad and sorrowful, for all day long she had to go about alone; and she did so wish to go home to her father and mother and brothers and sisters.

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**Who acts:** door, day · **What happens:** go, begin, be, have, go about, wish · **To what, where:** day

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, day), 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:pg503:4:24
# text = So all went well and happily for a time, but then she began to be very sad and sorrowful, for all day long she had to go about alone; and she did so wish to go home to her father and mother and brothers and sisters.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	home	home	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | time | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | door |  |  |  | then; day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | door | all day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go about** | to-infinitive | all day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **wish** | past · do-support | door |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to door's father and mother and brothers and sisters; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial\_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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