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title: After the banquet came a ball, and after that again a ballet, and at… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the banquet came a ball, and after that again a ballet, and at last they were all so tired that everyone fell asleep just where he sat. Only the lovers were as wide-awake as mice, and the Princess, seeing that there was nothing to fear, said to Fanfaronade: Who acts: Mayblossom, everyone, Fanf
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 13

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After the banquet came a ball, and after that again a ballet, and at last they were all so tired that everyone fell asleep just where he sat. Only the lovers were as wide-awake as mice, and the Princess, seeing that there was nothing to fear, said to Fanfaronade:

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**Who acts:** Mayblossom, everyone, Fanfaronade, Princess, nothing · **What happens:** come, be, fall, see, fear, say · **To what, where:** ball, last, Fanfaronade · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mayblossom, everyone, Fanfaronade, Princess), 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:pg540:4:13
# text = After the banquet came a ball, and after that again a ballet, and at last they were all so tired that everyone fell asleep just where he sat. Only the lovers were as wide-awake as mice, and the Princess, seeing that there was nothing to fear, said to Fanfaronade:
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
30	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
31	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	acl	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	49	expl	_	_
49	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
50	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	49	nsubj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
54	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | a ball |  |  | after the banquet; after a ballet |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ball=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Mayblossom |  |  | last |  | all, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Fanfaronade |  |  |  |  | as mice; awake *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fear** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess |  | Fanfaronade |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fanfaronade=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 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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