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title: At first Paul was too tired to do anything but sleep, but as soon as… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first Paul was too tired to do anything but sleep, but as soon as he was rested he started off in search of the three faithless ones, who almost died from fright at the sight of him, for they had thought he would never come back to reproach them for their wickedness. Who acts: Paul, three faithle
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 5

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At first Paul was too tired to do anything but sleep, but as soon as he was rested he started off in search of the three faithless ones, who almost died from fright at the sight of him, for they had thought he would never come back to reproach them for their wickedness.

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**Who acts:** Paul, three faithless ones · **What happens:** be, do, rest, start off, die, think · **To what, where:** anything, Paul, search, fright, friends, three faithless ones · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, three faithless ones), 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:pg2435:32:5
# text = At first Paul was too tired to do anything but sleep, but as soon as he was rested he started off in search of the three faithless ones, who almost died from fright at the sight of him, for they had thought he would never come back to reproach them for their wickedness.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
3	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	ccomp	_	_
50	back	back	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	reproach	reproach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Paul |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Paul *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rest** | past · passive |  | Paul |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **start off** | past | Paul |  |  | search of the three faithless ones |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **die** | past | the three faithless ones |  |  | fright |  | at the sight of Paul; almost *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from fright=Causer |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **come back** | would | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **reproach** | to-infinitive | Paul *not said here* | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | for friends's wickedness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for wickedness=Attribute |
| 9 | **search** |  |  | the three faithless ones |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **sight** |  |  | Paul |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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