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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 72

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Labakan made a shrewd guess that all these people had come here on his account; but he checked his impatience, knowing that only on the fourth day could his wishes be fulfilled.

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**Who acts:** Labakan, people · **What happens:** make, come, check, know, fulfil, account · **To what, where:** shrewd guess, account, impatience, wishes · **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 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, 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:pg2435:34:72
# text = Labakan made a shrewd guess that all these people had come here on his account; but he checked his impatience, knowing that only on the fourth day could his wishes be fulfilled.
1	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Labakan | a shrewd guess |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Product |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | all people | a shrewd guess |  | Labakan's account; here |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 3 | **check** | past | Labakan | Labakan's impatience |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impatience=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | gerund | Labakan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fulfil** | could · passive |  | Labakan's wishes |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **account** |  | Labakan |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **wish** |  | Labakan |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling 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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