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title: Then she commanded her servants to cast Death out of the city, which… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 109

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Then she commanded her servants to cast Death out of the city, which they did, with such hard blows that he never dared to show his face again in the Land of Immortality.

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**Who acts:** queen, servants, city · **What happens:** command, cast, do, not dare, not show · **To what, where:** servants, Death, city, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, servants, city), 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:pg2435:19:109
# text = Then she commanded her servants to cast Death out of the city, which they did, with such hard blows that he never dared to show his face again in the Land of Immortality.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | queen | queen's servants |  |  | then |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cast** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | Death |  | the city |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent death=Theme out city=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | past | servants *= servant* | the city |  |  |  | with such hard blows | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **dare** | past | city |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **show** | to-infinitive | city *not said here* | city's face |  |  | again | in the Land of Immortality | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in land=Topic |

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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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