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title: When the time comes to have them christened you will invite me to be… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the time comes to have them christened you will invite me to be godmother to the princess, and this is how you must send the invitation. Who acts: time, son, you, this. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 27

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When the time comes to have them christened you will invite me to be godmother to the princess, and this is how you must send the invitation.

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**Who acts:** time, son, you, this · **What happens:** come, have, christen, invite, be · **To what, where:** son, me, godmother

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, son, you, this), 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:pg641:12:27
# text = When the time comes to have them christened you will invite me to be godmother to the princess, and this is how you must send the invitation.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	christened	christen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* | son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **christen** | participle | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **invite** | future | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | godmother |  |  |  | to the princess | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | must · present | this |  |  |  |  | send *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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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