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title: Some time afterwards, it happened that the Prior of the Abbey of Sai… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time afterwards, it happened that the Prior of the Abbey of Saint Amand sent to the Lord of Avesnes a basket of oranges, with a beautifully-written letter saying that these golden fruit, then unknown in Flanders, came straight from a land where the sun always shone. Who acts: it, Prior, written
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 19

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Some time afterwards, it happened that the Prior of the Abbey of Saint Amand sent to the Lord of Avesnes a basket of oranges, with a beautifully-written letter saying that these golden fruit, then unknown in Flanders, came straight from a land where the sun always shone.

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**Who acts:** it, Prior, written letter, golden fruit · **What happens:** happen, send, write, say, come, shine · **To what, where:** basket, Lord, land, sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Prior, written letter, golden fruit), 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:pg540:40:19
# text = Some time afterwards, it happened that the Prior of the Abbey of Saint Amand sent to the Lord of Avesnes a basket of oranges, with a beautifully-written letter saying that these golden fruit, then unknown in Flanders, came straight from a land where the sun always shone.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prior	Prior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Amand	Amand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Avesnes	Avesne	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
33	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
35	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
40	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Flanders	Flander	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
45	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	53	advmod	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	53	advmod	_	_
53	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | the Prior of the Abbey of Saint | a basket of oranges | the Lord of Avesnes |  |  | with a written letter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to lord=Destination |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a written letter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | past | this golden fruit |  |  | a land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **shine** | participle · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  | always *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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