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title: So ended the shepherd’s tale; and the landlord who was listening wit… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So ended the shepherd’s tale; and the landlord who was listening with the rest, said shrewdly: Who acts: landlord, shepherd. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 113

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So ended the shepherd’s tale; and the landlord who was listening with the rest, said shrewdly:

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**Who acts:** landlord, shepherd · **What happens:** end, listen, say, tell · **To what, where:** tale · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, shepherd), 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:pg2435:15:113
# text = So ended the shepherd’s tale; and the landlord who was listening with the rest, said shrewdly:
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past |  | the shepherd's tale |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tale=Eventuality |
| 2 | **listen** | past · progressive | the landlord |  |  |  |  | with the rest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the landlord |  |  |  |  | shrewdly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** |  | the shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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