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title: Others, That all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept there… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Others, That all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept there their sabbath or night’s meeting. Who acts: That, Others. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 48

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Others, That all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept there their sabbath or night’s meeting.

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**Who acts:** That, Others · **What happens:** sorcerer, keep · **To what, where:** meeting

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Others), 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:pg503:10:48
# text = Others, That all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept there their sabbath or night’s meeting.
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
19	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sorcerer** |  | That |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Others | others's sabbath or night's meeting |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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