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title: In the meantime his service was drawing near to an end, and in three… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime his service was drawing near to an end, and in three more days the year was up, and he would be able to get his reward and leave the witch. Who acts: service, fox. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 76

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In the meantime his service was drawing near to an end, and in three more days the year was up, and he would be able to get his reward and leave the witch.

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**Who acts:** service, fox · **What happens:** draw, be, get, leave, service, reward · **To what, where:** meantime, reward, witch

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (service, fox), 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:pg640:31:76
# text = In the meantime his service was drawing near to an end, and in three more days the year was up, and he would be able to get his reward and leave the witch.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	near	near	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · progressive | fox's service |  |  | the meantime | to a end; day | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in meantime=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | would | fox |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* | fox's reward |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | fox *not said here* | the witch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 5 | **service** |  | fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **reward** |  | fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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 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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