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title: Tiidu had expected this summons, and had sat up all night changing h… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Tiidu had expected this summons, and had sat up all night changing his appearance, and so well had he succeeded that not a trace remained either of the piper or of the apple seller. Who acts: night, Tiidu, trace. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12,
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 46

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Tiidu had expected this summons, and had sat up all night changing his appearance, and so well had he succeeded that not a trace remained either of the piper or of the apple seller.

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**Who acts:** night, Tiidu, trace · **What happens:** expect, sit up, change, have, succeed, remain · **To what, where:** Tiidu, appearance, either

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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 (night, Tiidu, trace), 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:pg2435:12:46
# text = Tiidu had expected this summons, and had sat up all night changing his appearance, and so well had he succeeded that not a trace remained either of the piper or of the apple seller.
1	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	summons	summon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past · perfect · passive |  | Tiidu |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme summon=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sit up** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** | gerund | all night *not said here* | Tiidu's appearance |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **succeed** | past | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **remain** | past | a trace | either |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme either=Attribute |

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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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