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title: Two women and three men were at supper when he entered, and silently… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Two women and three men were at supper when he entered, and silently made room for him to sit down by them. Who acts: Two women, fellow. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 16

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Two women and three men were at supper when he entered, and silently made room for him to sit down by them.

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**Who acts:** Two women, fellow · **What happens:** be, enter, make, sit down · **To what, where:** supper

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two women, fellow), 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:pg2435:18:16
# text = Two women and three men were at supper when he entered, and silently made room for him to sit down by them.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Two women and three men |  |  | supper and made room for fellow |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | Two women and three men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by supper | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location |

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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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