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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 112

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Indeed, the affairs of the country fell into such disorder that at last the people broke out into open rebellion, and it was only the courage of the king, who continued to play the flute while swords and spears were flashing before the palace gate, that prevented civil war from being declared.

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**Who acts:** affairs, people, Council, king, swords, palace gate · **What happens:** fall, break out, be, continue, play, flash · **To what, where:** such disorder, last, courage, flute, palace gate, civil war

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affairs, people, Council, king), 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:pg5615:29:112
# text = Indeed, the affairs of the country fell into such disorder that at last the people broke out into open rebellion, and it was only the courage of the king, who continued to play the flute while swords and spears were flashing before the palace gate, that prevented civil war from being declared.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	disorder	disorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
45	before	before	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the affairs of the country |  |  |  |  | into such disorder *result*; indeed *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into disorder=Result |
| 2 | **break out** | past | the people | such disorder |  | last |  | into open rebellion *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into rebellion=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Council | the courage |  |  |  | of the king | tree rules |
| 4 | **continue** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the flute |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme |
| 6 | **flash** | past · progressive | swords and spears |  |  | the palace gate |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before gate=Location |
| 7 | **prevent** | past | the palace gate | civil war |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer war=Theme |
| 8 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund · passive | the palace gate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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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