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title: And when the rejoicings were over the news was in everybody’s mouth… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the rejoicings were over the news was in everybody’s mouth that Anna had sent for corn, and had made the loaf of which she had spoken at the strawberry beds. Who acts: rejoicings, mouth. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependenc
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 19

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And when the rejoicings were over the news was in everybody’s mouth that Anna had sent for corn, and had made the loaf of which she had spoken at the strawberry beds.

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**Who acts:** rejoicings, mouth · **What happens:** be, send, make, speak · **To what, where:** mouth, Anna, loaf, strawberry beds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rejoicings, mouth), 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:pg641:35:19
# text = And when the rejoicings were over the news was in everybody’s mouth that Anna had sent for corn, and had made the loaf of which she had spoken at the strawberry beds.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **is** | past | the rejoicings |  |  | everybody's mouth |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | everybody's mouth *not said here* | Anna |  |  |  | for corn | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | everybody's mouth *not said here* | the loaf |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loaf=Product |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | mouth |  |  | the strawberry beds |  | of the loaf | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 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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