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title: Well, it happened one day that these two, when out for an evening st… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, it happened one day that these two, when out for an evening stroll, met under a cherry tree, and in one moment fell madly in love with each other. Who acts: it. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 34

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Well, it happened one day that these two, when out for an evening stroll, met under a cherry tree, and in one moment fell madly in love with each other.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** happen out, meet, fall · **To what, where:** cherry tree, love

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (it), 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:pg5615:1:34
# text = Well, it happened one day that these two, when out for an evening stroll, met under a cherry tree, and in one moment fell madly in love with each other.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	stroll	stroll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	madly	madly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	28	obl	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen out** | past | it |  |  |  | day | for a evening stroll | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past |  |  |  | a cherry tree |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | love | moment | with each; madly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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