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title: Now there lived at this same court a very rich old duchess whose nam… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there lived at this same court a very rich old duchess whose name was Grumbly. Who acts: rich old duchess, Grumbly. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 5

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Now there lived at this same court a very rich old duchess whose name was Grumbly.

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**Who acts:** rich old duchess, Grumbly · **What happens:** live, be, name · **To what, where:** same court, Grumbly

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich old duchess, Grumbly), 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:pg540:23:5
# text = Now there lived at this same court a very rich old duchess whose name was Grumbly.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	duchess	duchess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Grumbly	Grumbly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | participle |  |  |  | this same court; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a rich old duchess | Grumbly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | Grumbly |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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