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title: It was plainly quite impossible that the wedding clothes could be re… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was plainly quite impossible that the wedding clothes could be ready next day. Who acts: pearl, wedding clothes. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 63

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It was plainly quite impossible that the wedding clothes could be ready next day.

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**Who acts:** pearl, wedding clothes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ready next day

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearl, wedding clothes), 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:pg5615:25:63
# text = It was plainly quite impossible that the wedding clothes could be ready next day.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | pearl |  |  |  |  | impossible, plainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | could | the wedding clothes | ready next day |  |  |  |  | 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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