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title: The seventh Simon answered the nurse: “We come from the country of t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The seventh Simon answered the nurse: “We come from the country of the wise and good King Archidej,” said he, “and we have brought all sorts of goods for sale. Who acts: seventh Simon, We, country, Simon. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 74

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The seventh Simon answered the nurse: “We come from the country of the wise and good King Archidej,” said he, “and we have brought all sorts of goods for sale.

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**Who acts:** seventh Simon, We, country, Simon · **What happens:** answer, come, say, bring, sort · **To what, where:** nurse, country, sorts, goods · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventh Simon, We, country, Simon), 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:pg2435:5:74
# text = The seventh Simon answered the nurse: “We come from the country of the wise and good King Archidej,” said he, “and we have brought all sorts of goods for sale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	nmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the seventh Simon | the nurse |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nurse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | We |  |  | the country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the wise King Archidej | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Simon | all sorts of goods |  |  |  | for sale | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sort=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | goods |  |  |  |  | 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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