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title: But everyone forgot amid the general joy that they ought to have bur… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But everyone forgot amid the general joy that they ought to have buried the Dragon’s monstrous body, for it began now to have such a bad smell that no one could live in the neighbourhood, and before long the whole air was poisoned, and a pestilence broke out which destroyed many hundreds of people. 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 171

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But everyone forgot amid the general joy that they ought to have buried the Dragon’s monstrous body, for it began now to have such a bad smell that no one could live in the neighbourhood, and before long the whole air was poisoned, and a pestilence broke out which destroyed many hundreds of people.

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**Who acts:** everyone, body, one, pestilence · **What happens:** forget, bury, begin, have, live, long · **To what, where:** amid, monstrous body, bad smell, neighbourhood, whole air, many hundreds

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, body, one, pestilence), 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:pg640:5:171
# text = But everyone forgot amid the general joy that they ought to have buried the Dragon’s monstrous body, for it began now to have such a bad smell that no one could live in the neighbourhood, and before long the whole air was poisoned, and a pestilence broke out which destroyed many hundreds of people.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	long	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
52	out	out	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
54	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
55	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | everyone | amid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | ought · perfect | everyone *not said here* | the Dragon's monstrous body |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | body |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | body *not said here* | such bad smell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | could | no one | such bad smell |  | the neighbourhood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location |
| 6 | **long** | gerund | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **poison** | past · passive |  | the whole air |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **break out** | past | a pestilence |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **destroy** | past |  | many hundreds of people |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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