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title: From that time forth the carpenter’s wife drank free of expense ever… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From that time forth the carpenter’s wife drank free of expense every Sunday, for the others had to admit that she had fooled her husband the best. Who acts: wife, others. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 84

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From that time forth the carpenter’s wife drank free of expense every Sunday, for the others had to admit that she had fooled her husband the best.

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**Who acts:** wife, others · **What happens:** drink, have, admit, fool · **To what, where:** Death · **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, others), 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:pg5615:32:84
# text = From that time forth the carpenter’s wife drank free of expense every Sunday, for the others had to admit that she had fooled her husband the best.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fooled	fool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | the carpenter's wife |  |  |  | time | free *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the others |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fool** | past · perfect · passive |  | Death |  |  |  |  | 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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