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title: On his return to the palace he was well scolded by the housekeeper f… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On his return to the palace he was well scolded by the housekeeper for staying away so long. Who acts: housekeeper, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 54

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On his return to the palace he was well scolded by the housekeeper for staying away so long.

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**Who acts:** housekeeper, king · **What happens:** scold, stay away, return · **To what, where:** king, return

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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 (housekeeper, 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:pg2435:3:54
# text = On his return to the palace he was well scolded by the housekeeper for staying away so long.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	scolded	scold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | past · passive | the housekeeper | king |  | king's return to the palace |  | well *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **stay away** | gerund | the housekeeper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** |  | king |  |  |  |  | to the palace | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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