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description: While the food lasted they were all three as happy as kings; but there soon arrived a day when the larder was as empty as ever. Who acts: food, skins, larder. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 36

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While the food lasted they were all three as happy as kings; but there soon arrived a day when the larder was as empty as ever.

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**Who acts:** food, skins, larder · **What happens:** last, be, arrive

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, skins, larder), 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:pg2435:32:36
# text = While the food lasted they were all three as happy as kings; but there soon arrived a day when the larder was as empty as ever.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	larder	larder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | the food |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | skins *= skin* |  |  |  |  | as kings; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | the food *not said here* |  |  | there | day | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the larder |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |

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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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