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title: Day after day the booth was so full it was hardly possible to enter… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Day after day the booth was so full it was hardly possible to enter it, and what the neighbour foretold had come to pass, and Jimmu was a rich man. Who acts: Day, it, neighbour, Jimmu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree an
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 22

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Day after day the booth was so full it was hardly possible to enter it, and what the neighbour foretold had come to pass, and Jimmu was a rich man.

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**Who acts:** Day, it, neighbour, Jimmu · **What happens:** be, enter, foretell, come, pass · **To what, where:** booth, neighbour, rich man

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, it, neighbour, Jimmu), 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:pg2435:39:22
# text = Day after day the booth was so full it was hardly possible to enter it, and what the neighbour foretold had come to pass, and Jimmu was a rich man.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Day after day |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | hardly, possible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **enter** | to-infinitive |  | booth |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
| 4 | **foretell** | participle |  | the neighbour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | the neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | the neighbour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past | Jimmu | a rich man |  |  |  |  | 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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