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title: The next morning Susan got up early to go to church at the neighbour… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning Susan got up early to go to church at the neighbouring town, and she thought she would take some sausages to her aunt who lived there. Who acts: next morning, Susan, aunt. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, with its dependency tree 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 56

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The next morning Susan got up early to go to church at the neighbouring town, and she thought she would take some sausages to her aunt who lived there.

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**Who acts:** next morning, Susan, aunt · **What happens:** get up, go, neighbour, think, take, live · **To what, where:** neighbouring town, sausages, aunt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next morning, Susan, aunt), 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:pg7277:53:56
# text = The next morning Susan got up early to go to church at the neighbouring town, and she thought she would take some sausages to her aunt who lived there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Susan	Susan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	sausages	sausage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | the next morning |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the next morning *not said here* |  |  | the neighbouring town |  | to church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Susan |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | would | Susan | some sausages | Susan's aunt |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sausage=Theme to aunt=Destination |
| 6 | **live** | past | Susan's aunt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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