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title: Upon this the people cried with one accord, ‘We will, we will! we ha… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this the people cried with one accord, ‘We will, we will! we have been gloomy and miserable too long already.’ Who acts: people, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 191

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Upon this the people cried with one accord, ‘We will, we will! we have been gloomy and miserable too long already.’

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**Who acts:** people, we · **What happens:** cry, be

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, we), 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:pg540:22:191
# text = Upon this the people cried with one accord, ‘We will, we will! we have been gloomy and miserable too long already.’
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
25	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the people |  |  |  |  | upon this; with one accord | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with accord=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | future · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | gloomy, long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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