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title: But in the afternoon, after they had dined at midday, all happened j… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the afternoon, after they had dined at midday, all happened just as the White Bear had said. Who acts: rejoicings. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 36

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But in the afternoon, after they had dined at midday, all happened just as the White Bear had said.

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**Who acts:** rejoicings · **What happens:** dine, happen, say · **To what, where:** midday, White Bear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rejoicings), 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:pg503:4:36
# text = But in the afternoon, after they had dined at midday, all happened just as the White Bear had said.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	dined	dine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dine** | past · perfect | rejoicings *= rejoicing* |  |  | midday | afternoon |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **happen** | past | rejoicings *= rejoicing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the White Bear |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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