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title: The king was very angry at her for playing truant, but when she retu… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was very angry at her for playing truant, but when she returned home the next day, she found the plants of her sisters withered away, because they had disobeyed their father. Who acts: king, Maria, plants. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 52

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The king was very angry at her for playing truant, but when she returned home the next day, she found the plants of her sisters withered away, because they had disobeyed their father.

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**Who acts:** king, Maria, plants · **What happens:** be, play, return, find, wither away, disobey · **To what, where:** father · **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 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Maria, plants), 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:pg2435:38:52
# text = The king was very angry at her for playing truant, but when she returned home the next day, she found the plants of her sisters withered away, because they had disobeyed their father.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	truant	truant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	withered	wither	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	disobeyed	disobey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | at Maria; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | truant *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **return** | past | Maria |  |  |  | day | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | Maria |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **wither away** | past | the plants of Maria's sisters |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **disobey** | past · perfect | plants *= plant* | plants's father |  |  |  |  | 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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