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title: After this conversation another letter was written to the Court of H… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After this conversation another letter was written to the Court of Hungary, saying that if the youth, now in the palace, was not sent to Turkey within three days, a large army would cross the border. Who acts: large army. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book,
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 103

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After this conversation another letter was written to the Court of Hungary, saying that if the youth, now in the palace, was not sent to Turkey within three days, a large army would cross the border.

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**Who acts:** large army · **What happens:** write, say, not send, cross · **To what, where:** letter, Court, Turkey, border · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large army), 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:pg2435:7:103
# text = After this conversation another letter was written to the Court of Hungary, saying that if the youth, now in the palace, was not sent to Turkey within three days, a large army would cross the border.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	within	within	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · passive |  | another letter | the Court of Hungary |  | after this conversation |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to court=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **send** | past · passive |  |  | Turkey |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to turkey=Destination |
| 4 | **cross** | would | a large army | the border |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=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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