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title: The party had listened with interest to this speech, but by the time… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The party had listened with interest to this speech, but by the time it was ended the hour was late, and they went their ways homeward, leaving only one man who had sat unheeded in a corner the whole evening through. Who acts: hour, flames, one man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 15

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The party had listened with interest to this speech, but by the time it was ended the hour was late, and they went their ways homeward, leaving only one man who had sat unheeded in a corner the whole evening through.

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**Who acts:** hour, flames, one man · **What happens:** listen, end, be, go, leave, sit · **To what, where:** party, ways, one man, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, flames, one man), 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:pg2435:16:15
# text = The party had listened with interest to this speech, but by the time it was ended the hour was late, and they went their ways homeward, leaving only one man who had sat unheeded in a corner the whole evening through.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	unheeded	unheeded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
44	through	through	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past · perfect · passive |  | the party |  |  |  | with interest to this speech | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | past · passive |  | party |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the hour |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | flames *= flame* | flames's ways |  |  |  | homeward *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | flames *= flame* *not said here* | one man |  |  | evening | through *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 6 | **sit** | past · perfect | one man |  |  | a corner |  | unheeded *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |

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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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