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title: And hardly was the last spadeful of earth flung over the coffin than… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And hardly was the last spadeful of earth flung over the coffin than she married a noble from a neighbouring country, and got him made king instead of the young prince. Who acts: spadeful, last spadeful. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, with its
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 50

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And hardly was the last spadeful of earth flung over the coffin than she married a noble from a neighbouring country, and got him made king instead of the young prince.

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**Who acts:** spadeful, last spadeful · **What happens:** be, fling, marry, neighbour, get, make · **To what, where:** last spadeful, earth, coffin, noble, neighbouring country, promise

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spadeful, last spadeful), 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:pg2435:20:50
# text = And hardly was the last spadeful of earth flung over the coffin than she married a noble from a neighbouring country, and got him made king instead of the young prince.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spadeful	spadeful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	noble	noble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the last spadeful |  |  |  | of earth; hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fling** | participle |  | earth *not said here* |  | the coffin |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over coffin=Destination |
| 3 | **marry** | past | spadeful | a noble |  | a neighbouring country |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noble=Patient |
| 4 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | past | spadeful *not said here* | promise |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | past | the last spadeful | king |  |  |  | instead the young prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |

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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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