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title: Next day the tailor’s wife said to her husband, ‘I have some girls c… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day the tailor’s wife said to her husband, ‘I have some girls coming to-day to help to card my wool there is a great deal to do, and we must be very busy. Who acts: wife, I, girls, wool. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree a
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 37

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Next day the tailor’s wife said to her husband, ‘I have some girls coming to-day to help to card my wool there is a great deal to do, and we must be very busy.

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**Who acts:** wife, I, girls, wool, we · **What happens:** say, have, come, help, be, do · **To what, where:** girls, card · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I, girls, wool), 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:pg5615:32:37
# text = Next day the tailor’s wife said to her husband, ‘I have some girls coming to-day to help to card my wool there is a great deal to do, and we must be very busy.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the tailor's wife |  |  |  | day | to tailor's husband | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to husband=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | some girls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | some girls *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | some girls *not said here* | card |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **be** | present | my wool | card *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot card=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | my wool *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | must | we |  |  |  |  | busy *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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