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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 47

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Tree Comber felt rather ashamed of himself, and set about boiling some more vegetables, but they were still very hard when the hunters returned, and though they complained of his bad cooking, he did not tell them about the dwarf.

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**Who acts:** Tree, trees, hunters, Comber · **What happens:** feel, set, boil, be, return, complain · **To what, where:** more vegetables, hunters · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, trees, hunters, Comber), 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:pg2435:31:47
# text = Tree Comber felt rather ashamed of himself, and set about boiling some more vegetables, but they were still very hard when the hunters returned, and though they complained of his bad cooking, he did not tell them about the dwarf.
1	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Comber	Comber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	obl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
29	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Tree |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | Tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **boil** | gerund |  | some more vegetables |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  | still | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | past | the hunters |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | hunters *= hunter* |  |  |  |  | of Comber's bad cooking | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Comber |  | hunters *= hunter* |  |  | about the dwarf | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about dwarf=Topic |
| 8 | **cook** |  | Comber |  |  |  |  |  | nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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