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title: Next day Stone Crusher was left behind, and after him Iron Kneader,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day Stone Crusher was left behind, and after him Iron Kneader, and each time the dwarf appeared, and they fared no better than Tree Comber had done. Who acts: dwarf, stones, Tree. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree an
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 48

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Next day Stone Crusher was left behind, and after him Iron Kneader, and each time the dwarf appeared, and they fared no better than Tree Comber had done.

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**Who acts:** dwarf, stones, Tree · **What happens:** leave behind, appear, fare, do · **To what, where:** Stone

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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 (dwarf, stones, Tree), 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:pg2435:31:48
# text = Next day Stone Crusher was left behind, and after him Iron Kneader, and each time the dwarf appeared, and they fared no better than Tree Comber had done.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Crusher	Crusher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
12	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Kneader	Kneader	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	ccomp	_	_
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	Comber	Comber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  | Stone |  |  | after Comber; day | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the dwarf |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fare** | past | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | Tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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