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title: Now in the whole town there was only one red cloak, and that belonge… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now in the whole town there was only one red cloak, and that belonged to a man of whom nobody ever willingly asked a favour—Master Hammerling the hangman. Who acts: whole town, that, nobody. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency t
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 54

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Now in the whole town there was only one red cloak, and that belonged to a man of whom nobody ever willingly asked a favour—Master Hammerling the hangman.

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**Who acts:** whole town, that, nobody · **What happens:** be, belong, ask · **To what, where:** one red cloak, favour

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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 (whole town, that, nobody), 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:pg2435:16:54
# text = Now in the whole town there was only one red cloak, and that belonged to a man of whom nobody ever willingly asked a favour—Master Hammerling the hangman.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
15	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Hammerling	Hammerling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hangman	hangman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the whole town | one red cloak |  |  |  | Master Hammerling *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | past | that |  |  |  |  | to a man | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | nobody | a favour |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |

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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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