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title: The people he met were all friendly and kind, and enjoyed his flute-… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The people he met were all friendly and kind, and enjoyed his flute-playing, giving him his food in return, and even a few pence. Who acts: Tiidu, people. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 2

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The people he met were all friendly and kind, and enjoyed his flute-playing, giving him his food in return, and even a few pence.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, people · **What happens:** meet, be, enjoy, play, give · **To what, where:** people, flute, food, Tiidu, return

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, people), 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:pg2435:11:2
# text = The people he met were all friendly and kind, and enjoyed his flute-playing, giving him his food in return, and even a few pence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	pence	pence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Tiidu | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | all, friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** | past | the people *not said here* | Tiidu's flute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | gerund | the people *not said here* | Tiidu's food | Tiidu | return |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=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 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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