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title: On the morning after the wedding, when the two girls awoke, milk was… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the morning after the wedding, when the two girls awoke, milk was standing for the man’s daughter to wash in and wine for her to drink; but for the woman’s daughter, only water to wash in and only water to drink. Who acts: two girls, milk, daughter. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 14

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On the morning after the wedding, when the two girls awoke, milk was standing for the man’s daughter to wash in and wine for her to drink; but for the woman’s daughter, only water to wash in and only water to drink.

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**Who acts:** two girls, milk, daughter · **What happens:** awake, stand, wash, drink

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two girls, milk, daughter), 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:pg540:37:14
# text = On the morning after the wedding, when the two girls awoke, milk was standing for the man’s daughter to wash in and wine for her to drink; but for the woman’s daughter, only water to wash in and only water to drink.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
43	in	in	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	only	only	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | the two girls |  |  |  | morning | for the woman's daughter and water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | milk |  |  |  |  | for the man's daughter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for daughter=Attribute |
| 3 | **wash** | to-infinitive | milk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wash** | to-infinitive | the two girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the two girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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