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title: The Mice courteously assented, and after many polite speeches the wh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mice courteously assented, and after many polite speeches the whole party fell asleep. Who acts: Mice, whole party. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 78

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The Mice courteously assented, and after many polite speeches the whole party fell asleep.

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**Who acts:** Mice, whole party · **What happens:** assent, fall

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mice, whole party), 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:pg540:36:78
# text = The Mice courteously assented, and after many polite speeches the whole party fell asleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mice	Mouse	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	courteously	courteously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	assented	assent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assent** | participle | the Mice |  |  |  |  | courteously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the whole party |  |  |  | after many polite speeches | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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 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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