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title: Early on the following day the whole town was on its feet, and every… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Early on the following day the whole town was on its feet, and everyone wondered how and where the stranger would build the wonderful palace. Who acts: whole town, everyone, stranger. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 72

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Early on the following day the whole town was on its feet, and everyone wondered how and where the stranger would build the wonderful palace.

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**Who acts:** whole town, everyone, stranger · **What happens:** follow, be, wonder, build · **To what, where:** feet, wonderful palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole town, everyone, stranger), 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:pg640:14:72
# text = Early on the following day the whole town was on its feet, and everyone wondered how and where the stranger would build the wonderful palace.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the whole town |  |  | town's feet | day | early *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | everyone | town's feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | would | the stranger | the wonderful palace |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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