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title: Soon afterwards the young people settled in a fine house which Fried… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon afterwards the young people settled in a fine house which Friedlin had bought, and had a garden and meadows, a fishpond, and a hill covered with vines, and were as happy as the day was long. Who acts: young people, hill, day. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fa
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 32

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Soon afterwards the young people settled in a fine house which Friedlin had bought, and had a garden and meadows, a fishpond, and a hill covered with vines, and were as happy as the day was long.

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**Who acts:** young people, hill, day · **What happens:** settle, buy, have, cover, be · **To what, where:** fine house, garden, hill

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young people, hill, day), 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:pg2435:17:32
# text = Soon afterwards the young people settled in a fine house which Friedlin had bought, and had a garden and meadows, a fishpond, and a hill covered with vines, and were as happy as the day was long.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fishpond	fishpond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
29	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | the young people |  |  | a fine house |  | afterwards *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 2 | **buy** | past · perfect · passive |  | a fine house |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the young people *not said here* | a garden and meadows and a fishpond |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | a hill *not said here* |  |  |  | with vines | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with vine=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | a hill |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the day |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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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