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title: Father Peter also stayed quietly with them, living, as everybody bel… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Father Peter also stayed quietly with them, living, as everybody believed, upon the generosity of his rich son-in law. Who acts: Father, everybody. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 33

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Father Peter also stayed quietly with them, living, as everybody believed, upon the generosity of his rich son-in law.

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**Who acts:** Father, everybody · **What happens:** stay, live, believe · **To what, where:** generosity

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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 (Father, everybody), 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:pg2435:17:33
# text = Father Peter also stayed quietly with them, living, as everybody believed, upon the generosity of his rich son-in law.
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | Father |  |  |  |  | with vines *= vine*; quietly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | Father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** | past | everybody | the generosity of father's rich son in law |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer generosity=Stimulus |

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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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