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title: However, when they saw what was written above the door, they were al… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, when they saw what was written above the door, they were all well pleased to get a night’s lodging for nothing. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 90

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However, when they saw what was written above the door, they were all well pleased to get a night’s lodging for nothing.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** see, write, be, get · **To what, where:** door, lodging · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people), 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:pg2435:30:90
# text = However, when they saw what was written above the door, they were all well pleased to get a night’s lodging for nothing.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | people |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  | the door |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | all, pleased, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | a night's lodging |  |  |  | for nothing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lodging=Theme for nothing=Source |

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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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