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title: And so it had also gone with one, on the night before a certain day,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it had also gone with one, on the night before a certain day, when a merry young smith came wandering to the town where the king’s castle stood. Who acts: payment, merry young smith, castle. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency t
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 122

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And so it had also gone with one, on the night before a certain day, when a merry young smith came wandering to the town where the king’s castle stood.

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**Who acts:** payment, merry young smith, castle · **What happens:** go, come, wonder, stand

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (payment, merry young smith, castle), 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:pg5615:6:122
# text = And so it had also gone with one, on the night before a certain day, when a merry young smith came wandering to the town where the king’s castle stood.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | payment |  |  |  | day; night | with one | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with one=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | past | a merry young smith |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | a merry young smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the town | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the king's castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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