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title: Then it was noticed that the drinking-horn was empty and the sword g… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it was noticed that the drinking-horn was empty and the sword gone, while the princess reported that half of her handkerchief and one of her slippers had been taken away. Who acts: drinking horn, sword, princess. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, par
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 68

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Then it was noticed that the drinking-horn was empty and the sword gone, while the princess reported that half of her handkerchief and one of her slippers had been taken away.

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**Who acts:** drinking horn, sword, princess · **What happens:** notice, be, go, report, take away · **To what, where:** body, half

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drinking horn, sword, princess), 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:pg2435:30:68
# text = Then it was noticed that the drinking-horn was empty and the sword gone, while the princess reported that half of her handkerchief and one of her slippers had been taken away.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	33	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past · passive |  | body |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the drinking horn |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | participle | the sword |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **report** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **take away** | past · perfect · passive |  | half of half's handkerchief |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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