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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 86

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His strange death, which no one could explain, made a great sensation throughout the country, and the funeral his people gave him was the most splendid ever known.

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**Who acts:** one, strange death, funeral, emperor · **What happens:** explain, make, give, be, know, die · **To what, where:** strange death, great sensation, emperor

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, strange death, funeral, emperor), 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:pg641:40:86
# text = His strange death, which no one could explain, made a great sensation throughout the country, and the funeral his people gave him was the most splendid ever known.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | could | no one | emperor's strange death |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | emperor's strange death | a great sensation |  |  | throughout the country |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sensation=Product |
| 3 | **give** | past | the funeral |  | emperor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the funeral *not said here* |  |  |  |  | splendid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle | the funeral *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **die** |  | emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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