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title: It was all so pleasant that they might have stayed there for ever ha… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was all so pleasant that they might have stayed there for ever had not a voice cried out to them, ‘Children, it is time for you to come home!’ Who acts: song, eyes, voice, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 67

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It was all so pleasant that they might have stayed there for ever had not a voice cried out to them, ‘Children, it is time for you to come home!’

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**Who acts:** song, eyes, voice, you · **What happens:** be, stay, have, not cry out, come · **To what, where:** Children, eyes, time

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, eyes, voice, you), 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:pg641:2:67
# text = It was all so pleasant that they might have stayed there for ever had not a voice cried out to them, ‘Children, it is time for you to come home!’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
33	home	home	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | song |  |  |  |  | all, pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | might · perfect | eyes *= eye* | Children |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | participle | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **cry out** *speech: express* | past | a voice |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | song | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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