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title: After you had vanished, no one knew where, your poor wife grew more… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After you had vanished, no one knew where, your poor wife grew more and more wretched, and would neither eat nor drink. Who acts: you, one, poor wife. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 53

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After you had vanished, no one knew where, your poor wife grew more and more wretched, and would neither eat nor drink.

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**Who acts:** you, one, poor wife · **What happens:** vanish, know, grow, eat, drink

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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 (you, one, poor wife), 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:pg2435:28:53
# text = After you had vanished, no one knew where, your poor wife grew more and more wretched, and would neither eat nor drink.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | past | your poor wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | would |  |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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