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title: But, exactly as before, one day that Catherine was left in the house… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, exactly as before, one day that Catherine was left in the house alone her Destiny came again and spoke to her with hard words: ‘What! are you here now?’ Who acts: one day, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 101

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But, exactly as before, one day that Catherine was left in the house alone her Destiny came again and spoke to her with hard words: ‘What! are you here now?’

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**Who acts:** one day, you · **What happens:** leave, come, speak, be · **To what, where:** Catherine, house, mistress · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one day, you), 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:pg5615:18:101
# text = But, exactly as before, one day that Catherine was left in the house alone her Destiny came again and spoke to her with hard words: ‘What! are you here now?’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	parataxis	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Catherine |  | the house |  | alone *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme destiny=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past | one day |  |  |  | again | before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | one day *not said here* |  | mistress |  |  | with hard words | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | now | here *property* | 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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