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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 84

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About a month after this, someone knocked at Dame Ilse’s door one day, and she went to see if it was a customer for meal; but in stepped a handsome young man, dressed like a duke’s son, who greeted her respectfully, and asked after her pretty daughter as if he were an old friend, though she could not remember having ever set eyes upon him before.

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**Who acts:** someone, Dame, door, son, man · **What happens:** knock, go, see, be, step, dress · **To what, where:** customer, handsome young man, Dame, daughter, old friend, set eyes

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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 (someone, Dame, door, son), 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:pg2435:16:84
# text = About a month after this, someone knocked at Dame Ilse’s door one day, and she went to see if it was a customer for meal; but in stepped a handsome young man, dressed like a duke’s son, who greeted her respectfully, and asked after her pretty daughter as if he were an old friend, though she could not remember having ever set eyes upon him before.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
52	after	after	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
54	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
57	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
59	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
60	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
64	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
65	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
66	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
67	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	68	advmod	_	_
68	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
69	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	68	xcomp	_	_
70	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	69	advmod	_	_
71	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	69	obj	_	_
73	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
74	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obl	_	_
75	before	before	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | someone |  |  |  | day | at Dame's door; about *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | Dame |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Dame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | door | a customer |  |  |  | for meal | tree rules |
| 5 | **step** | past | someone *not said here* | a handsome young man |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location man=Theme |
| 6 | **dress** | participle |  | a handsome young man *not said here* |  |  |  | like a duke's son | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | a duke's son |  | Dame |  |  | respectfully *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  | daughter |  |  | after Dame |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** | past | man | a old friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **not** **remember** | could | Dame |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 11 | **not** **have** | gerund | Dame *not said here* | set eyes |  |  | ever | upon man; before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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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