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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 97

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Now you must go to the Sultana, clothed in sackcloth and robes of mourning, and tell her that your husband, Abu Nowas, is dead, and you have no money for his burial.

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**Who acts:** you, husband, Abu · **What happens:** go, clothe, tell, be, have, bury · **To what, where:** Sultana, wife, money · **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 (you, husband, Abu), 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:pg2435:28:97
# text = Now you must go to the Sultana, clothed in sackcloth and robes of mourning, and tell her that your husband, Abu Nowas, is dead, and you have no money for his burial.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | must | you |  |  | the Sultana | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sultana=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **clothe** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in sackcloth and robes of mourning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in sackcloth=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | your husband |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | you | no money |  |  |  | for Abu's burial | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 6 | **bury** |  | Abu |  |  |  |  |  | nom burial «event transitive»: poss=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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