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description: On the day after this the carpenter had been out at work, and came home quite merry; but as soon as he entered the house his wife clapped her hands together and cried, ‘My dear, what makes you look like that? Who acts: carpenter, work, man, wife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 47

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On the day after this the carpenter had been out at work, and came home quite merry; but as soon as he entered the house his wife clapped her hands together and cried, ‘My dear, what makes you look like that?

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**Who acts:** carpenter, work, man, wife, you · **What happens:** be, come, enter, clap, cry, make · **To what, where:** work, house, hands, you

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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 (carpenter, work, man, wife), 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:pg5615:32:47
# text = On the day after this the carpenter had been out at work, and came home quite merry; but as soon as he entered the house his wife clapped her hands together and cried, ‘My dear, what makes you look like that?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	42	nsubj	_	_
42	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the carpenter |  |  | work | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home, merry *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | past | man | the house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
| 4 | **clap** | past | man's wife | wool's hands |  |  |  | soon, together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | man's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like that | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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