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title: Of course the same thing happened over again, till all the wives had… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course the same thing happened over again, till all the wives had been killed secretly, and when there were no more left they whispered to each other the dreadful tale, and swore to be avenged on the shoemaker. Who acts: same thing, companions. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 99

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Of course the same thing happened over again, till all the wives had been killed secretly, and when there were no more left they whispered to each other the dreadful tale, and swore to be avenged on the shoemaker.

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**Who acts:** same thing, companions · **What happens:** happen, kill, not be, whisper, swear, avenge · **To what, where:** wives, dreadful tale, each, shoemaker

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same thing, companions), 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:pg5615:17:99
# text = Of course the same thing happened over again, till all the wives had been killed secretly, and when there were no more left they whispered to each other the dreadful tale, and swore to be avenged on the shoemaker.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	27	obl	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | the same thing |  |  |  | again |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | all wives |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | left *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | companions *= companion* | the dreadful tale | each |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to each=Recipient |
| 5 | **swear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **avenge** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | the shoemaker |  |  | 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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