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title: At length they arrived in the capital, where the public rejoicings w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length they arrived in the capital, where the public rejoicings were grander and more brilliant than anywhere else. Who acts: town, public rejoicings. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 3

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At length they arrived in the capital, where the public rejoicings were grander and more brilliant than anywhere else.

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**Who acts:** town, public rejoicings · **What happens:** arrive, be · **To what, where:** length

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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 (town, public rejoicings), 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:pg2435:35:3
# text = At length they arrived in the capital, where the public rejoicings were grander and more brilliant than anywhere else.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	grander	grand	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
20	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | town |  |  | length |  | in the capital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the public rejoicings |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the public rejoicings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anywhere *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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