--- title: By-and-bye a story went round the town, started no one knew how, tha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: By-and-bye a story went round the town, started no one knew how, that the malady was in some way connected with the nose; and men rubbed their own anxiously, to be sure that nothing catching was in the air. Who acts: story, one, malady, men. 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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 (story, one, malady, men), 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:pg2435:12:43 # text = By-and-bye a story went round the town, started no one knew how, that the malady was in some way connected with the nose; and men rubbed their own anxiously, to be sure that nothing catching was in the air. 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 bye bye INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 round round ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 malady malady NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 26 connected connect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ _ 36 anxiously anxiously ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 40 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 42 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 43 compound _ _ 43 catching catching NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | a story | | | the town | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round town=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **start** | past | a story *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **know** | past | no one | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | the malady | | | some way | | | tree rules | | 5 | **connect** | participle | | some way *not said here* | | | | with the nose | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with nose=Co-Patient | | 6 | **rub** | past | men | men's own | | | | anxiously *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent own=Theme | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | nothing catching | | | the air | | | tree rules | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/44/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/)