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title: At length a rich bishop died in the neighbourhood I was then in, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length a rich bishop died in the neighbourhood I was then in, and I heard he was interred with a great deal of jewels and rich robes upon him, all which I intended in a short time to be master of. Who acts: rich bishop, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Kni
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 90

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At length a rich bishop died in the neighbourhood I was then in, and I heard he was interred with a great deal of jewels and rich robes upon him, all which I intended in a short time to be master of.

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**Who acts:** rich bishop, I · **What happens:** die, be, hear, inter, intend, deal · **To what, where:** length, neighbourhood, bishop, jewels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich bishop, I), 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:pg540:8:90
# text = At length a rich bishop died in the neighbourhood I was then in, and I heard he was interred with a great deal of jewels and rich robes upon him, all which I intended in a short time to be master of.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	interred	inter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | a rich bishop |  |  | length |  | in the neighbourhood | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in neighbourhood=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | I | the neighbourhood *not said here* |  |  | then | in *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **inter** | past · passive |  | bishop |  |  |  | with a great deal of jewels and rich robes upon Thief | tree rules |
| 5 | **intend** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of master | tree rules |
| 7 | **deal** |  |  | jewels and rich robes upon Thief |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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