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title: So then they ate and drank, and were happy, and next morning he set… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So then they ate and drank, and were happy, and next morning he set off in the grey light of dawn. Who acts: things, Halvor. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 37

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So then they ate and drank, and were happy, and next morning he set off in the grey light of dawn.

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**Who acts:** things, Halvor · **What happens:** eat, drink, be, set off, light · **To what, where:** grey light, dawn

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, Halvor), 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:pg540:6:37
# text = So then they ate and drank, and were happy, and next morning he set off in the grey light of dawn.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set off** | past | Halvor |  |  | the grey light of dawn | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | dawn |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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