--- title: “Soon after midday Abu Nowas came into the hall, his eyes streaming… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Soon after midday Abu Nowas came into the hall, his eyes streaming with tears, and when I asked him the reason he answered that his wife was dead, and they had sold everything they had, and he had nothing left, not so much as would buy her a shroud, far less for her burial.” Who acts: Abu, eyes, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/115/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/) / 115 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 115 “Soon after midday Abu Nowas came into the hall, his eyes streaming with tears, and when I asked him the reason he answered that his wife was dead, and they had sold everything they had, and he had nothing left, not so much as would buy her a shroud, far less for her burial.” **Who acts:** Abu, eyes, wife, tears · **What happens:** come, stream, ask, answer, be, sell · **To what, where:** eyes, hall, reason, Abu, tears, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu, eyes, wife, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:28:115 # text = “Soon after midday Abu Nowas came into the hall, his eyes streaming with tears, and when I asked him the reason he answered that his wife was dead, and they had sold everything they had, and he had nothing left, not so much as would buy her a shroud, far less for her burial.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 Abu Abu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Nowas Nowas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 streaming stream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 parataxis _ _ 37 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 36 obj _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 44 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 43 obj _ _ 45 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ _ 50 as as SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 51 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ _ 53 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 iobj _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 shroud shroud NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 58 advmod _ _ 58 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 55 amod _ _ 59 for for ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Abu | Abu's eyes | | the hall | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **stream** *in a quote* | gerund | Abu's eyes *not said here* | | | | | with tears | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tear=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | Abu | the reason | Abu | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Abu | the reason *not said here* | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent reason=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Abu's wife | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sell** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive | | tears *= tear* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient everything=Theme | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | past | tears *= tear* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Abu | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 9 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **buy** *in a quote* | would | Abu *not said here* | a shroud | wife | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary shroud=Theme | | 11 | **bury** *in a quote* | | wife | | | | | | nom burial «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/116/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/)