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title: Every evening, when his work was done, Guilbert came to visit his fu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every evening, when his work was done, Guilbert came to visit his future bride. Who acts: Guilbert, Count. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 45

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Every evening, when his work was done, Guilbert came to visit his future bride.

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**Who acts:** Guilbert, Count · **What happens:** do, come, visit, work · **To what, where:** work, future bride

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guilbert, Count), 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:pg540:42:45
# text = Every evening, when his work was done, Guilbert came to visit his future bride.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	Guilbert	Guilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | Count's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | past | Guilbert |  |  |  | evening |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Guilbert *not said here* | Count's future bride |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **work** |  | Count |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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