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title: Everything seemed to turn to gold in his hands, till one day, when h… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything seemed to turn to gold in his hands, till one day, when he and his son were sitting in the orchard watching their herds of cattle grazing in the meadows, he suddenly said: “Peter, my boy, it is time that you were thinking of marrying.” Who acts: Everything, man, orchard, cattle. A sentenc
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 83

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Everything seemed to turn to gold in his hands, till one day, when he and his son were sitting in the orchard watching their herds of cattle grazing in the meadows, he suddenly said: “Peter, my boy, it is time that you were thinking of marrying.”

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**Who acts:** Everything, man, orchard, cattle, meadow, time · **What happens:** seem, turn, sit, watch, graze, say · **To what, where:** hands, orchard, herds, meadows, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Everything, man, orchard, cattle), 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:pg2435:27:83
# text = Everything seemed to turn to gold in his hands, till one day, when he and his son were sitting in the orchard watching their herds of cattle grazing in the meadows, he suddenly said: “Peter, my boy, it is time that you were thinking of marrying.”
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	acl:relcl	_	_
52	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
53	marrying	marry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **turn** | to-infinitive | Everything *not said here* |  |  | man's hands | day | to gold | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to gold=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | man |  |  | the orchard |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in orchard=Location |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | the orchard *not said here* | gardens's herds of cattle |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 5 | **graze** | gerund | cattle *not said here* |  |  | the meadows |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | meadow | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · progressive | time |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **marry** *in a quote* | gerund | time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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