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title: When the old man had gone out about his business his bride passed he… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the old man had gone out about his business his bride passed her time in embroidering beautiful flowers on the bed quilt to make his heart happy. Who acts: old man, bride. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 23

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When the old man had gone out about his business his bride passed her time in embroidering beautiful flowers on the bed quilt to make his heart happy.

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**Who acts:** old man, bride · **What happens:** go out, pass, embroider, make · **To what, where:** beautiful flowers, bed quilt, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, bride), 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:pg5615:22:23
# text = When the old man had gone out about his business his bride passed her time in embroidering beautiful flowers on the bed quilt to make his heart happy.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	embroidering	embroider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	quilt	quilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past · perfect | the old man |  |  |  |  | about man's business | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | past | man's bride |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **embroider** | gerund | man's bride *not said here* | beautiful flowers |  | the bed quilt |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme on quilt=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | man's bride *not said here* | man's heart |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product |

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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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