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title: After breakfast, the Sultan, who was getting tired of the whole affa… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After breakfast, the Sultan, who was getting tired of the whole affair and wanted to be alone to invent some other plan, told them they might return home. Who acts: Sultan, three. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 7

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After breakfast, the Sultan, who was getting tired of the whole affair and wanted to be alone to invent some other plan, told them they might return home.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, three · **What happens:** get, want, be, invent, tell, return · **To what, where:** other plan, three · **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 (Sultan, three), 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:pg2435:8:7
# text = After breakfast, the Sultan, who was getting tired of the whole affair and wanted to be alone to invent some other plan, told them they might return home.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
16	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	home	home	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · progressive | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **want** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  | after breakfast |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **invent** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | some other plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Sultan *not said here* |  | three |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **return** | might | three |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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