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title: In the great city in which he lived there was always something going… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the great city in which he lived there was always something going on; every day many strangers came there. Who acts: king, something, many strangers. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 4

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In the great city in which he lived there was always something going on; every day many strangers came there.

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**Who acts:** king, something, many strangers · **What happens:** live, be, go on, come · **To what, where:** great city

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, something, many strangers), 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:pg640:6:4
# text = In the great city in which he lived there was always something going on; every day many strangers came there.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | king |  |  | the great city |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | something |  |  | there |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go on** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | many strangers |  |  | there | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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