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title: This did not take long either; and people who were at the wedding fe… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 58

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This did not take long either; and people who were at the wedding feast declared that the best part of the whole day was the hour when Tiidu played to them on the pipes before they bade each other farewell and returned to their homes.

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**Who acts:** This, people, best part, Tiidu · **What happens:** not take, be, play, bade, return · **To what, where:** wedding feast, hour, people, pipes, other farewell

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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 (This, people, best part, 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:pg2435:12:58
# text = This did not take long either; and people who were at the wedding feast declared that the best part of the whole day was the hour when Tiidu played to them on the pipes before they bade each other farewell and returned to their homes.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	bade	bade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
39	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | This |  |  |  |  | either, long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | people |  |  | the wedding feast |  | declare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the best part of the whole day | the hour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | past | Tiidu |  | people | the pipes |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bade** | present | people | each other farewell |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **return** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to people's homes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |

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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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