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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 36

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And Don Giovanni followed him, and an agreement was drawn up by which the house was to be sold at once, and a large sum of money paid down in eight days.

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** follow, draw up, sell, pay down, sum · **To what, where:** mad, agreement, house, money

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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:pg5615:39:36
# text = And Don Giovanni followed him, and an agreement was drawn up by which the house was to be sold at once, and a large sum of money paid down in eight days.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Don | mad |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | a agreement |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | a large sum of money *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at once=Asset |
| 4 | **pay down** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession 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 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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