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title: The blade was always bright and clear; each time she looked she had… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The blade was always bright and clear; each time she looked she had the happiness of knowing that all was well, till one evening, tired and anxious, as she frequently was at the end of the day, she took it from its drawer, and behold! the blade was red with blood. Who acts: blade, sister, happiness,
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 92

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The blade was always bright and clear; each time she looked she had the happiness of knowing that all was well, till one evening, tired and anxious, as she frequently was at the end of the day, she took it from its drawer, and behold! the blade was red with blood.

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**Who acts:** blade, sister, happiness, all · **What happens:** be, look, have, know, take · **To what, where:** time, happiness, end, blade, drawer · **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 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blade, sister, happiness, all), 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:pg5615:20:92
# text = The blade was always bright and clear; each time she looked she had the happiness of knowing that all was well, till one evening, tired and anxious, as she frequently was at the end of the day, she took it from its drawer, and behold! the blade was red with blood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	till	till	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
34	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
51	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	56	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
56	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the blade |  |  |  |  | always, bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the blade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | sister | each time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | past | sister | the happiness |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Patient |
| 5 | **know** | gerund | the happiness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  | till one evening | well *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | sister |  |  |  | at the end; day | frequently *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **take** | past | sister | blade |  | blade's drawer |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from drawer=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **is** | past | the blade |  |  |  |  | with blood; red *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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