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title: And when they had finished their dinner Ciccu told the others to go… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they had finished their dinner Ciccu told the others to go on, and he would wait to pay the bill. Who acts: turns, dinner, Ciccu. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 62

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And when they had finished their dinner Ciccu told the others to go on, and he would wait to pay the bill.

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**Who acts:** turns, dinner, Ciccu · **What happens:** finish, tell, go on, wait, pay · **To what, where:** others, bill · **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 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turns, dinner, Ciccu), 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:pg5615:37:62
# text = And when they had finished their dinner Ciccu told the others to go on, and he would wait to pay the bill.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | turns *= turn* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | turns's dinner |  | the others |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go on** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | turns's dinner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | would | Ciccu |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Ciccu *not said here* | the bill |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset |

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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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