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title: And after the church was finished greater numbers of people than eve… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And after the church was finished greater numbers of people than ever flocked to see the palace and the church and vast gardens and magnificent halls. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 46

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And after the church was finished greater numbers of people than ever flocked to see the palace and the church and vast gardens and magnificent halls.

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**What happens:** finish, flock, see · **To what, where:** greater numbers, people, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:20:46
# text = And after the church was finished greater numbers of people than ever flocked to see the palace and the church and vast gardens and magnificent halls.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	flocked	flock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · passive |  | greater numbers of people and vast gardens and magnificent halls |  |  | after the church |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: number=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flock** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the palace and the church |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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