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title: Somewhere or other, but I don’t know where, there lived a king who o… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 5

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Somewhere or other, but I don’t know where, there lived a king who owned two remarkably fine fields of rape, but every night two of the rape heaps were burnt down in one of the fields.

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**Who acts:** I, king · **What happens:** not know, live, own, burnt down · **To what, where:** king, two fine fields, night

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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:pg2435:3:5
# text = Somewhere or other, but I don’t know where, there lived a king who owned two remarkably fine fields of rape, but every night two of the rape heaps were burnt down in one of the fields.
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rape	rape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	rape	rape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | a king |  | there |  | somewhere *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
| 3 | **own** | past | a king | two fine fields of rape |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot field=Theme |
| 4 | **burnt down** | past · passive |  | every night of the rape heaps |  |  |  | in one of the fields | 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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