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title: Désiré waited to bid him good-bye until he was quiet again; but as h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Désiré waited to bid him good-bye until he was quiet again; but as his father went on laughing and showed no signs of stopping, the young man took his hand, kissed it tenderly, opened the door, and in the twinkling of an eye was at the bottom of the staircase. Who acts: Désiré, father, signs, young 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 28

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Désiré waited to bid him good-bye until he was quiet again; but as his father went on laughing and showed no signs of stopping, the young man took his hand, kissed it tenderly, opened the door, and in the twinkling of an eye was at the bottom of the staircase.

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**Who acts:** Désiré, father, signs, young man · **What happens:** wait, bid, be, go, laugh, show · **To what, where:** Désiré, signs, hand, door, bottom

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Désiré, father, signs, young man), 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:pg540:40:28
# text = Désiré waited to bid him good-bye until he was quiet again; but as his father went on laughing and showed no signs of stopping, the young man took his hand, kissed it tenderly, opened the door, and in the twinkling of an eye was at the bottom of the staircase.
1	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bye	bye	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Désiré |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bid** | to-infinitive | Désiré *not said here* | Désiré |  |  |  | bye *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Désiré |  |  |  | again | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | Désiré's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund | Désiré's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **show** | past | Désiré *not said here* | no signs |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient |
| 7 | **stop** | gerund | no signs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **take** | past | the young man | Désiré's hand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 9 | **kiss** | past | the young man *not said here* | hand |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 10 | **open** | past | the young man *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 11 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the bottom |  | in the twinkling of a eye; of the staircase | tree rules |

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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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