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description: One day Abu Nowas came weeping into the hall of the palace where the Sultan was sitting, and said to him: “Oh, mighty Sultan, my wife is dead.” Who acts: Abu, Sultan, wife. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 65

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One day Abu Nowas came weeping into the hall of the palace where the Sultan was sitting, and said to him: “Oh, mighty Sultan, my wife is dead.”

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**Who acts:** Abu, Sultan, wife · **What happens:** come, weep, sit, say, be · **To what, where:** hall, Abu, mighty Sultan · **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 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, Sultan, 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:pg2435:28:65
# text = One day Abu Nowas came weeping into the hall of the palace where the Sultan was sitting, and said to him: “Oh, mighty Sultan, my wife is dead.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Abu |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | Abu *not said here* |  |  | the hall of the palace |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into hall=Recipient |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Abu *not said here* |  | Abu |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my wife | mighty Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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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