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title: The parents of Rasmus and Niels were good Catholics, and when they w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The parents of Rasmus and Niels were good Catholics, and when they were getting old the mother took it into her head that she would like to go to Rome and see the Pope. Who acts: parents, Catholics, good Catholics, mother. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 111

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The parents of Rasmus and Niels were good Catholics, and when they were getting old the mother took it into her head that she would like to go to Rome and see the Pope.

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**Who acts:** parents, Catholics, good Catholics, mother · **What happens:** be, get, take, like, go, see · **To what, where:** good Catholics, old mother, reason, head, Rome, Pope

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Catholics, good Catholics, mother), 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:pg2435:29:111
# text = The parents of Rasmus and Niels were good Catholics, and when they were getting old the mother took it into her head that she would like to go to Rome and see the Pope.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the parents of Rasmus and Niels | good Catholics |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past · progressive | Catholics *= catholic* | the old mother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | past | good Catholics | reason |  | mother's head |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination |
| 4 | **like** | would | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  | Rome |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rome=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | the Pope |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pope=Stimulus |

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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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