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title: Once upon a time there lived at Quesnoy, in Flanders, a great lord w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there lived at Quesnoy, in Flanders, a great lord whose name was Burchard, but whom the country people called Burchard the Wolf. Who acts: great lord, country people, Flanders Burchard. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree a
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 2

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Once upon a time there lived at Quesnoy, in Flanders, a great lord whose name was Burchard, but whom the country people called Burchard the Wolf.

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**Who acts:** great lord, country people, Flanders Burchard · **What happens:** live, be, call, name · **To what, where:** Quesnoy, Flanders Burchard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great lord, country people, Flanders Burchard), 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:pg540:42:2
# text = Once upon a time there lived at Quesnoy, in Flanders, a great lord whose name was Burchard, but whom the country people called Burchard the Wolf.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Quesnoy	Quesnoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Flanders	Flander	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | Quesnoy; there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at quesnoy=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a great lord | Flanders Burchard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | past | the country people |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
| 4 | **name** |  | Flanders Burchard |  |  |  |  |  | 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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