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title: Then he bade them ‘Good-bye,’ and went home nad dined on a good fat… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he bade them ‘Good-bye,’ and went home nad dined on a good fat veal roast. Who acts: Peter. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 39

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Then he bade them ‘Good-bye,’ and went home nad dined on a good fat veal roast.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** bade, go, dine · **To what, where:** parents, nad

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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:pg5615:14:39
# text = Then he bade them ‘Good-bye,’ and went home nad dined on a good fat veal roast.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	nad	nad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	dined	dine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	veal	veal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Peter | parents *= parent* |  |  | then | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Peter *not said here* | nad |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dine** | participle |  | nad *not said here* |  |  |  | on a good veal roast | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on roast=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 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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