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title: In his trouble Peter would have promised far harder things than this… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In his trouble Peter would have promised far harder things than this, so he gladly gave the promise Eisenkopf asked for; and at a whistle from the stranger the animals all began crowding into the nut again, nearly tumbling over each other in their haste. Who acts: Peter, Eisenkopf, son. A sentence o
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 75

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In his trouble Peter would have promised far harder things than this, so he gladly gave the promise Eisenkopf asked for; and at a whistle from the stranger the animals all began crowding into the nut again, nearly tumbling over each other in their haste.

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**Who acts:** Peter, Eisenkopf, son · **What happens:** promise, give, ask, begin, crowd, tumble · **To what, where:** Peter, trouble, promise, whistle, nut, each

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Eisenkopf, son), 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:pg2435:27:75
# text = In his trouble Peter would have promised far harder things than this, so he gladly gave the promise Eisenkopf asked for; and at a whistle from the stranger the animals all began crowding into the nut again, nearly tumbling over each other in their haste.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
35	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	conj	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	42	obl	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	fixed	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | would · perfect · passive |  | Peter |  | son's trouble |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal thing=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Peter | the promise |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Eisenkopf | the promise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent promise=Recipient |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  | a whistle from the stranger and the animals |  | all *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **crowd** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the nut | again |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nut=Destination |
| 6 | **tumble** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | each |  | in animals's haste; nearly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in haste=Attribute |
| 7 | **trouble** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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