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title: The morning after his visit to the castle the whole city was in an u… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The morning after his visit to the castle the whole city was in an uproar about the dreadful misfortune that had happened to the Royal Family, for not only the king but his wife and children, had eaten of the stranger’s apples, and all, so said the rumour, were very ill. Who acts: morning, dreadful 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 41

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The morning after his visit to the castle the whole city was in an uproar about the dreadful misfortune that had happened to the Royal Family, for not only the king but his wife and children, had eaten of the stranger’s apples, and all, so said the rumour, were very ill.

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**Who acts:** morning, dreadful misfortune, wife, Tiidu · **What happens:** be, happen, eat, say, visit · **To what, where:** uproar, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning, dreadful misfortune, wife, 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:pg2435:12:41
# text = The morning after his visit to the castle the whole city was in an uproar about the dreadful misfortune that had happened to the Royal Family, for not only the king but his wife and children, had eaten of the stranger’s apples, and all, so said the rumour, were very ill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Family	Family	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	very	very	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the morning after Tiidu's visit to the castle |  |  | a uproar |  | about the dreadful misfortune | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | the dreadful misfortune |  |  |  |  | to the Royal Family | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | past · perfect | Tiidu's wife and children |  |  |  |  | of the stranger's apples | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of apple=Source |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rumour=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **visit** |  | Tiidu |  |  |  |  | to the castle | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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