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title: The next day some of the cattle were driven to market and sold, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day some of the cattle were driven to market and sold, and with the money the old man was able to buy some of the fields and gardens round his house, and in a few months had grown the richest and most prosperous man in the whole village. Who acts: old man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy B
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 82

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The next day some of the cattle were driven to market and sold, and with the money the old man was able to buy some of the fields and gardens round his house, and in a few months had grown the richest and most prosperous man in the whole village.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** drive, sell, be, buy, grow · **To what, where:** some, market, richest man, whole village

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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 (old man), 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:pg2435:27:82
# text = The next day some of the cattle were driven to market and sold, and with the money the old man was able to buy some of the fields and gardens round his house, and in a few months had grown the richest and most prosperous man in the whole village.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	round	round	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
44	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	amod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	47	advmod	_	_
47	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
48	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · passive |  | some |  | market | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to market=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sell** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the old man |  |  |  |  | with the money; able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | some |  |  |  | round man's house | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | past · perfect |  | the richest man |  | the whole village | month |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |

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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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