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title: Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas and rivers, there… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas and rivers, there stood a splendid city where lived King Archidej, who was as good as he was rich and handsome. Who acts: King Archidej, Archidej. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its depend
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 39

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Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas and rivers, there stood a splendid city where lived King Archidej, who was as good as he was rich and handsome.

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**Who acts:** King Archidej, Archidej · **What happens:** stand, live, be, sort · **To what, where:** splendid city, sorts, King Archidej, countries

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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 (King Archidej, Archidej), 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:pg2435:4:39
# text = Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas and rivers, there stood a splendid city where lived King Archidej, who was as good as he was rich and handsome.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a splendid city |  | all sorts of countries and seas and rivers; there |  | away *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent city=Theme beyond sort=Destination |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | King Archidej |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | King Archidej |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Archidej |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Archidej *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | countries and seas and rivers |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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