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title: Now this was just the very time that the witch had to go to Troms Ch… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this was just the very time that the witch had to go to Troms Church, where all the witches gather once every year, so she had no time to deal with Esben herself. Who acts: this, witch, witches. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 66

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Now this was just the very time that the witch had to go to Troms Church, where all the witches gather once every year, so she had no time to deal with Esben herself.

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**Who acts:** this, witch, witches · **What happens:** be, have, go, gather, deal · **To what, where:** time, Troms Church, witch

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, witch, witches), 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:pg5615:29:66
# text = Now this was just the very time that the witch had to go to Troms Church, where all the witches gather once every year, so she had no time to deal with Esben herself.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Troms	Troms	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this | the time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the witch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the witch *not said here* |  |  | Troms Church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **gather** | present | all witches |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | witch |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **deal** | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* | witch |  |  |  | with Esben | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with esben=Theme |

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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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