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title: Both prepared for the wooing a whole week, which was the longest tim… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Both prepared for the wooing a whole week, which was the longest time allowed them; but, after all, it was quite long enough, for they both had preparatory knowledge, and everyone knows how useful that is. Who acts: best, sons, everyone, that. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 85

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Both prepared for the wooing a whole week, which was the longest time allowed them; but, after all, it was quite long enough, for they both had preparatory knowledge, and everyone knows how useful that is.

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**Who acts:** best, sons, everyone, that · **What happens:** woo, be, have, know · **To what, where:** preparatory knowledge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, sons, everyone, that), 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:pg640:50:85
# text = Both prepared for the wooing a whole week, which was the longest time allowed them; but, after all, it was quite long enough, for they both had preparatory knowledge, and everyone knows how useful that is.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	wooing	woo	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	nsubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
33	preparatory	preparatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
38	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
39	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
40	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	ccomp	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **woo** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | time | allow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | best *= good* |  |  |  |  | enough, long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | sons *= son* | preparatory knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
| 5 | **know** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | 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 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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