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title: After this they talked of many things, and the lady showed herself l… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After this they talked of many things, and the lady showed herself learned in all that a woman should know, and even in much that men only were commonly taught. Who acts: Vikings, lady, woman. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 10

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After this they talked of many things, and the lady showed herself learned in all that a woman should know, and even in much that men only were commonly taught.

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**Who acts:** Vikings, lady, woman · **What happens:** talk, show, learn, know, teach · **To what, where:** lady, all, men

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikings, lady, woman), 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:pg2435:23:10
# text = After this they talked of many things, and the lady showed herself learned in all that a woman should know, and even in much that men only were commonly taught.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | Vikings *= viking* |  |  |  | after this | of many things | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | past | the lady | lady |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **learn** | participle | the lady *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | should | a woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | men |  |  |  | commonly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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