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title: The king was extremely angry at this, and sent out soldiers to catch… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was extremely angry at this, and sent out soldiers to catch whoever had set fire to the ricks; but it was all of no use—not a soul could they see. Who acts: king, soul. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 6

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The king was extremely angry at this, and sent out soldiers to catch whoever had set fire to the ricks; but it was all of no use—not a soul could they see.

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**Who acts:** king, soul · **What happens:** be, send out, catch, set, not see · **To what, where:** this, soldiers, whoever, fire, use

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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 (king, soul), 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:pg2435:3:6
# text = The king was extremely angry at this, and sent out soldiers to catch whoever had set fire to the ricks; but it was all of no use—not a soul could they see.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ricks	rick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | past | the king |  |  | this |  | angry, extremely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send out** | participle | the king *not said here* | soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | whoever |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whoever=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | past · perfect |  | fire |  |  |  | to the ricks | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
| 5 | **not** **see** | could | a soul | no use *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer use=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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