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title: But come to an end it did, and they had to sell their fine things on… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But come to an end it did, and they had to sell their fine things one by one, till at length nothing was left but a cloak apiece, and one blanket to cover them. Who acts: you, end, clothes. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 77

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But come to an end it did, and they had to sell their fine things one by one, till at length nothing was left but a cloak apiece, and one blanket to cover them.

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**Who acts:** you, end, clothes · **What happens:** come, do, have, sell, leave, cover · **To what, where:** one blanket, end, fine things, nothing, clothes

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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, end, clothes), 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:pg2435:28:77
# text = But come to an end it did, and they had to sell their fine things one by one, till at length nothing was left but a cloak apiece, and one blanket to cover them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	apiece	apiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | one blanket |  |  | to a end |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **do** | past | end | a end *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past | clothes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sell** | to-infinitive | clothes *not said here* | clothes's fine things |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |

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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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