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title: And next evening they came with four others, who wanted to hear the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And next evening they came with four others, who wanted to hear the tree’s story, and it told still more, for it remembered everything so clearly and thought: ‘Those were happy times! Who acts: hams, four others, mouse. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 142

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And next evening they came with four others, who wanted to hear the tree’s story, and it told still more, for it remembered everything so clearly and thought: ‘Those were happy times!

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**Who acts:** hams, four others, mouse · **What happens:** come, want, hear, tell, remember, think · **To what, where:** story, more, everything, happy times · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hams, four others, mouse), 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:pg5615:11:142
# text = And next evening they came with four others, who wanted to hear the tree’s story, and it told still more, for it remembered everything so clearly and thought: ‘Those were happy times!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	obj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | hams *= ham* |  |  |  | evening | with four others | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | past | four others |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | four others *not said here* | the tree's story |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | mouse | more |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient |
| 5 | **remember** | past | mouse | everything |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | that happy times |  |  |  |  | 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 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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