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title: But in that place there were some Christian folk who had been carrie… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in that place there were some Christian folk who had been carried off, and they had been sitting in the chamber which was next to that of the Prince, and had heard how a woman had been in there who had wept and called on him two nights running, and they told the Prince of this. Who acts: Christi
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 131

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But in that place there were some Christian folk who had been carried off, and they had been sitting in the chamber which was next to that of the Prince, and had heard how a woman had been in there who had wept and called on him two nights running, and they told the Prince of this.

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**Who acts:** Christian folk, places, chamber, woman, two nights · **What happens:** be, carry off, sit, hear, weep, call · **To what, where:** place, Christian folk, chamber, two nights, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian folk, places, chamber, woman), 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:pg503:4:131
# text = But in that place there were some Christian folk who had been carried off, and they had been sitting in the chamber which was next to that of the Prince, and had heard how a woman had been in there who had wept and called on him two nights running, and they told the Prince of this.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	next	next	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	cop	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	xcomp	_	_
52	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	iobj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | some Christian folk |  |  | that place; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **carry off** | past · perfect · passive |  | some Christian folk |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past · perfect · progressive | places *= place* |  |  | the chamber |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the chamber |  |  |  |  | to that; of the Prince; next *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | a woman |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **weep** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **call** | participle |  | two nights |  |  |  | on folk | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **run** | gerund | two nights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | places *= place* |  | the Prince of this |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |

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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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