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title: Now, at that time there reigned over Greece a king who was very rich… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, at that time there reigned over Greece a king who was very rich and powerful, although his name has somehow been forgotten. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 44

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Now, at that time there reigned over Greece a king who was very rich and powerful, although his name has somehow been forgotten.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** reign, be, forget, name · **To what, where:** Greece, name

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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 (king), 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:pg2435:23:44
# text = Now, at that time there reigned over Greece a king who was very rich and powerful, although his name has somehow been forgotten.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | past |  |  |  | Greece | now; time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a king |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | present · perfect · passive |  | king's name |  |  |  | somehow *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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