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description: Days went by, and the emperor waited and waited for the sons who never came, and could not sleep at night for wondering where they were and what had become of them. Who acts: Days, emperor, sons. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependen
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 41

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Days went by, and the emperor waited and waited for the sons who never came, and could not sleep at night for wondering where they were and what had become of them.

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**Who acts:** Days, emperor, sons · **What happens:** go by, wait, not come, not sleep, wonder, become · **To what, where:** Prince · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Days, emperor, sons), 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:pg2435:8:41
# text = Days went by, and the emperor waited and waited for the sons who never came, and could not sleep at night for wondering where they were and what had become of them.
1	Days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past | Days |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | past | the emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the sons | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come** | past | the sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **sleep** | could | the emperor *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **become** | past · perfect · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  | of heels *= heel* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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