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title: In the joy of his heart Peter had tasted freely of his own good wine… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the joy of his heart Peter had tasted freely of his own good wine, and as the bride hung upon his arm he stumbled and fell, dragging her down with him; whereupon she beat him soundly, and the neighbours said truly that things did not promise well for Master Peter’s comfort. Who acts: bride, Peter
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 23

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In the joy of his heart Peter had tasted freely of his own good wine, and as the bride hung upon his arm he stumbled and fell, dragging her down with him; whereupon she beat him soundly, and the neighbours said truly that things did not promise well for Master Peter’s comfort.

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**Who acts:** bride, Peter, neighbours, things, Master Peter · **What happens:** taste, hang, stumble, fall, drag down, beat · **To what, where:** joy, arm, bride, Peter, heart · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, Peter, neighbours, things), 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:pg2435:16:23
# text = In the joy of his heart Peter had tasted freely of his own good wine, and as the bride hung upon his arm he stumbled and fell, dragging her down with him; whereupon she beat him soundly, and the neighbours said truly that things did not promise well for Master Peter’s comfort.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
46	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
49	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	ccomp	_	_
52	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’s	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the joy of Peter's heart |  | of Peter's own good wine; freely *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in joy=Location |
| 2 | **hang** | past | the bride |  |  | Peter's arm |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon arm=Location |
| 3 | **stumble** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **drag down** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | bride |  |  |  | with Peter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **beat** | past | bride | Peter |  |  |  | soundly, whereupon *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the neighbours |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | things |  |  |  |  | for Master Peter's comfort *goal*; well *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for comfort=Goal |
| 9 | **joy** |  |  | Peter's heart |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **comfort** |  | Master Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom comfort «state transitive»: 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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