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title: Not a day passed without his bringing some story against the youth t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a day passed without his bringing some story against the youth to his master, but the king understood all about the matter and paid no attention. Who acts: groom, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 23

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Not a day passed without his bringing some story against the youth to his master, but the king understood all about the matter and paid no attention.

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**Who acts:** groom, king · **What happens:** not pass, bring, understand, pay · **To what, where:** story, youth, attention

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groom, king), 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:pg2435:14:23
# text = Not a day passed without his bringing some story against the youth to his master, but the king understood all about the matter and paid no attention.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pass** | participle |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | groom | some story |  | the youth |  | to groom's master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme against youth=Destination |
| 3 | **understand** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | about the matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about matter=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pay** | past | the king *not said here* | no attention |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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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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