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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 58

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He vexed himself about it from morning till night, till at length an explanation occurred to him—the young man was in love!

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**Who acts:** king, explanation, young man · **What happens:** vex, occur, be · **To what, where:** king, length, love

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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 (king, explanation, young man), 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:pg2435:18:58
# text = He vexed himself about it from morning till night, till at length an explanation occurred to him—the young man was in love!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	vexed	vex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** | past | king | king |  |  | morning; night | about alteration | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **occur** | past | a explanation |  | king | length |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the young man |  |  | love |  |  | 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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