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title: The minister stopped and greeted the lady politely, and she replied… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The minister stopped and greeted the lady politely, and she replied with friendliness, asking him why he had come to such an out-of-the way place. Who acts: minister, he. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 2

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The minister stopped and greeted the lady politely, and she replied with friendliness, asking him why he had come to such an out-of-the way place.

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**Who acts:** minister, he · **What happens:** stop, greet, reply, ask, come · **To what, where:** lady, him, way place

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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 (minister, he), 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:pg2435:23:2
# text = The minister stopped and greeted the lady politely, and she replied with friendliness, asking him why he had come to such an out-of-the way place.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	friendliness	friendliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	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 | **stop** | past | the minister |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the minister *not said here* |  | the lady |  |  | politely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | minister |  |  |  |  | with friendliness | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with friendliness=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | minister *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | he |  |  | such way place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |

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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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