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title: On receiving this message the boy dried his tears and went with the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On receiving this message the boy dried his tears and went with the servant to the royal carriage. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 97

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On receiving this message the boy dried his tears and went with the servant to the royal carriage.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** receive, dry, go · **To what, where:** message, tears, royal carriage

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg2435:6:97
# text = On receiving this message the boy dried his tears and went with the servant to the royal carriage.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | this message |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 2 | **dry** | past | the boy | Boy's tears |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |
| 3 | **go** | past | the boy *not said here* |  |  | the royal carriage |  | with the servant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to carriage=Initial\_Location |

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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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