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title: His great army was made up of men ready to obey his slightest wish;… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His great army was made up of men ready to obey his slightest wish; he owned forty times forty cities, and in each city he had ten palaces with silver doors, golden roofs, and crystal windows. Who acts: great army, Archidej. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Bo
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 40

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His great army was made up of men ready to obey his slightest wish; he owned forty times forty cities, and in each city he had ten palaces with silver doors, golden roofs, and crystal windows.

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**Who acts:** great army, Archidej · **What happens:** make up, obey, own, have, wish · **To what, where:** great army, slightest wish, ten palaces, city

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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 (great army, 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:pg2435:4:40
# text = His great army was made up of men ready to obey his slightest wish; he owned forty times forty cities, and in each city he had ten palaces with silver doors, golden roofs, and crystal windows.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past · passive |  | Archidej's great army |  |  |  | of men | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 2 | **obey** | to-infinitive | Archidej's great army *not said here* | Archidej's slightest wish |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme |
| 3 | **own** | past | Archidej |  |  |  | time |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **have** | past | Archidej | ten palaces and golden roofs |  | each city |  | with silver doors; crystal windows *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient |
| 5 | **wish** |  | Archidej |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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