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title: When the time comes near for his debt becoming due you will be able… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the time comes near for his debt becoming due you will be able to notice by his manner that he is ill at ease. Who acts: time, debt, you, kingdom. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 30

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When the time comes near for his debt becoming due you will be able to notice by his manner that he is ill at ease.

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**Who acts:** time, debt, you, kingdom · **What happens:** come, become, be, notice · **To what, where:** ease

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, debt, you, kingdom), 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:pg5615:27:30
# text = When the time comes near for his debt becoming due you will be able to notice by his manner that he is ill at ease.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the time |  |  |  |  | for kingdom's debt; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | kingdom's debt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | due *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **notice** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by kingdom's manner | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | kingdom |  |  | ease |  | ill *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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