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description: The master then scolded him soundly about the stolen robe, but in vain Labakan told him he had come to pay for it and offered three times its price. Who acts: master. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 113

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The master then scolded him soundly about the stolen robe, but in vain Labakan told him he had come to pay for it and offered three times its price.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** scold, steal, tell, come, pay, offer · **To what, where:** midst, vain Labakan, price · **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 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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:pg2435:35:113
# text = The master then scolded him soundly about the stolen robe, but in vain Labakan told him he had come to pay for it and offered three times its price.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | past | the master | midst |  |  | then | about the stolen robe; soundly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | midst | vain Labakan |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | master |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for robe | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 6 | **offer** | past |  | robe's price |  |  | time |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent price=Theme |

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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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