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title: And now came the greatest misfortune of all, for each of the pieces… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now came the greatest misfortune of all, for each of the pieces was hardly as large as a grain of sand and they flew about all over the world, and if anyone had a bit in his eye there it stayed, and then he would see everything awry, or else could only see the bad sides of a case. Who acts: each
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 42

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And now came the greatest misfortune of all, for each of the pieces was hardly as large as a grain of sand and they flew about all over the world, and if anyone had a bit in his eye there it stayed, and then he would see everything awry, or else could only see the bad sides of a case.

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**Who acts:** each, pieces, anyone, bit, rain · **What happens:** come, be, fly, have, stay, see · **To what, where:** greatest misfortune, world, bit, eye, everything, bad sides

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, pieces, anyone, bit), 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:pg5615:8:42
# text = And now came the greatest misfortune of all, for each of the pieces was hardly as large as a grain of sand and they flew about all over the world, and if anyone had a bit in his eye there it stayed, and then he would see everything awry, or else could only see the bad sides of a case.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
51	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	50	obj	_	_
52	awry	awry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	else	else	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
56	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	only	only	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the greatest misfortune of all |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location misfortune=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | each |  |  |  |  | as a grain of sand; hardly, large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  | the world |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Location |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anyone | a bit |  | rain's eye |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
| 5 | **stay** | past | bit | rain's eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme eye=Location |
| 6 | **see** | would | rain | everything |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 7 | **see** | could | rain *not said here* | the bad sides of a case |  |  |  | else *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=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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