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title: Out of all the ten or eleven, there was only one who gave his parent… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of all the ten or eleven, there was only one who gave his parents any trouble, and this was a big lazy boy whose name was Tiidu. Who acts: this, name, Tiidu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 80

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Out of all the ten or eleven, there was only one who gave his parents any trouble, and this was a big lazy boy whose name was Tiidu.

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**Who acts:** this, name, Tiidu · **What happens:** be, give, name · **To what, where:** trouble, parents, big lazy boy, Tiidu

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, name, Tiidu), 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:pg2435:10:80
# text = Out of all the ten or eleven, there was only one who gave his parents any trouble, and this was a big lazy boy whose name was Tiidu.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	iobj	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	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	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | out all ten one | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | any trouble | man's parents |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient trouble=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | a big lazy boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Tiidu's name | Tiidu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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