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title: The third night, he was sure, would be the worst; he had been drunk… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The third night, he was sure, would be the worst; he had been drunk when he promised it, and the half of the kingdom, the king could never have been in earnest about that! Who acts: third night, remainder, half. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with it
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 70

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The third night, he was sure, would be the worst; he had been drunk when he promised it, and the half of the kingdom, the king could never have been in earnest about that!

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**Who acts:** third night, remainder, half · **What happens:** be, promise, not be · **To what, where:** game

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third night, remainder, half), 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:pg5615:7:70
# text = The third night, he was sure, would be the worst; he had been drunk when he promised it, and the half of the kingdom, the king could never have been in earnest about that!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	37	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	ccomp	_	_
38	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the third night |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | the third night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | remainder |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | remainder | game |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | could · perfect | the half of the kingdom |  |  |  |  | about that; earn *property* | tree rules |

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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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