--- title: They crowded round him, and praised him, and pressed him to come to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They crowded round him, and praised him, and pressed him to come to their homes, declaring that it was a shame not to give their friends the chance of hearing such music. Who acts: people, hearing such music. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, hearing such music), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:11:10 # text = They crowded round him, and praised him, and pressed him to come to their homes, declaring that it was a shame not to give their friends the chance of hearing such music. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crowded crowd VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 round round ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 declaring declare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crowd** | past | people | | | | | round Tiidu | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round he=Destination | | 2 | **praise** | past | people *not said here* | Tiidu | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **press** | past | | Tiidu | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | | | | people's homes | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | | a shame | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | | the chance of hearing such music | people's friends | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient chance=Theme | | 8 | **chance** | | hearing such music | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/11/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/)