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title: As neither mother nor daughter nor father came upstairs again, the l… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As neither mother nor daughter nor father came upstairs again, the lover grew impatient, and went down into the cellar to see what they could all be doing. Who acts: mother, lover, names. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 15

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As neither mother nor daughter nor father came upstairs again, the lover grew impatient, and went down into the cellar to see what they could all be doing.

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**Who acts:** mother, lover, names · **What happens:** come, grow, go down, see, do · **To what, where:** cellar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, lover, names), 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:pg540:28:15
# text = As neither mother nor daughter nor father came upstairs again, the lover grew impatient, and went down into the cellar to see what they could all be doing.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | neither mother nor daughter nor father |  |  |  | again | upstairs *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the lover |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go down** | past | the lover *not said here* |  |  | the cellar |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the lover *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | could · progressive | names *= name* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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