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title: But the greatest merry-making was in the king’s palace; there the be… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the greatest merry-making was in the king’s palace; there the best bands played and the best food was cooked; a crowd of people sat down to table, and all was fun and merry-making. Who acts: greatest merry making, best bands, crowd, all. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 32

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But the greatest merry-making was in the king’s palace; there the best bands played and the best food was cooked; a crowd of people sat down to table, and all was fun and merry-making.

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**Who acts:** greatest merry making, best bands, crowd, all · **What happens:** be, play, cook, sit down, make · **To what, where:** palace, best food

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest merry making, best bands, crowd, all), 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:pg2435:4:32
# text = But the greatest merry-making was in the king’s palace; there the best bands played and the best food was cooked; a crowd of people sat down to table, and all was fun and merry-making.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
4	merry	merry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the greatest merry making |  |  | the king's palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | past | the best bands |  |  | there |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cook** | past · passive |  | the best food |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | a crowd of people |  |  |  |  | to table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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