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title: Next day, which was a Sunday, they all went gaily to church, thinkin… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day, which was a Sunday, they all went gaily to church, thinking that after Mass they would at last be able to eat some good thing that the rats had not tasted before them. Who acts: Next day, hand, rats. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its dependency tre
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 75

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Next day, which was a Sunday, they all went gaily to church, thinking that after Mass they would at last be able to eat some good thing that the rats had not tasted before them.

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**Who acts:** Next day, hand, rats · **What happens:** be, go, think, eat, not taste · **To what, where:** Sunday, church, last, good thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Next day, hand, rats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:2478`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:32:75
# text = Next day, which was a Sunday, they all went gaily to church, thinking that after Mass they would at last be able to eat some good thing that the rats had not tasted before them.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Next day | a Sunday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | hand |  |  | church | day | gaily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would | hand |  |  | last | after Mass | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | hand *not said here* | some good thing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **taste** | past · perfect | the rats | some good thing |  |  | before hand |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme before they=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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