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title: All his colour had disappeared; whether this had happened on his tra… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All his colour had disappeared; whether this had happened on his travels or whether it was the result of trouble, who can say? Who acts: colour, this, trouble. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 76

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All his colour had disappeared; whether this had happened on his travels or whether it was the result of trouble, who can say?

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**Who acts:** colour, this, trouble · **What happens:** disappear, happen, travel, be, say · **To what, where:** result · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colour, this, trouble), 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:pg640:50:76
# text = All his colour had disappeared; whether this had happened on his travels or whether it was the result of trouble, who can say?
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past · perfect | lay's colour |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | present | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | colour | the result |  |  |  | of trouble | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | trouble |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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