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title: From the very day that the new wife came into the house there was no… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From the very day that the new wife came into the house there was no peace for the man’s children, and not a corner to be found where they could get any rest; so the boy thought that the best thing he could do was to go out into the world and try to earn his own bread. Who acts: new wife, peace, boy
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 4

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From the very day that the new wife came into the house there was no peace for the man’s children, and not a corner to be found where they could get any rest; so the boy thought that the best thing he could do was to go out into the world and try to earn his own bread.

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**Who acts:** new wife, peace, boy, best thing · **What happens:** come, be, find, get, think, do · **To what, where:** house, rest, best thing, world, own bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new wife, peace, boy, best thing), 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:pg540:47:4
# text = From the very day that the new wife came into the house there was no peace for the man’s children, and not a corner to be found where they could get any rest; so the boy thought that the best thing he could do was to go out into the world and try to earn his own bread.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
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	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	amod	_	_
44	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:outer	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	ccomp	_	_
51	out	out	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
60	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the new wife |  |  | the house | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | no peace for the man's children and a corner |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | no peace for the man's children and a corner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: clause=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | could | peace | any rest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | could | boy | the best thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is** | past | the best thing |  |  | the world |  | go, out *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **try** | infinitive | the best thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **earn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the best thing *not said here* | man's own bread |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |

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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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