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title: Their king showed them what they had to do, and they set to work so… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their king showed them what they had to do, and they set to work so hard that the grain was sorted into two heaps long before the council was over. Who acts: king, rooms, council. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 39

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Their king showed them what they had to do, and they set to work so hard that the grain was sorted into two heaps long before the council was over.

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**Who acts:** king, rooms, council · **What happens:** show, have, do, set, work, sort · **To what, where:** rooms, grain, two heaps

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, rooms, council), 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:pg2435:21:39
# text = Their king showed them what they had to do, and they set to work so hard that the grain was sorted into two heaps long before the council was over.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | rooms's king | rooms *= room* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient what=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | rooms *= room* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | rooms *= room* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | present | rooms *= room* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | rooms *= room* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sort** | past · passive |  | the grain |  |  |  | into two heaps *goal*; long *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into heap=Goal |
| 7 | **is** | past | the council |  |  |  |  | over *property* | 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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