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title: From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowd… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowds presented themselves before the emperor, complaining of the robberies, murders, and other crimes that were committed nightly in the streets. Who acts: morning crowds, other crimes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 88

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From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowds presented themselves before the emperor, complaining of the robberies, murders, and other crimes that were committed nightly in the streets.

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**Who acts:** morning crowds, other crimes · **What happens:** go, present, complain, be · **To what, where:** day things, crowds, streets

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning crowds, other crimes), 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:pg641:43:88
# text = From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowds presented themselves before the emperor, complaining of the robberies, murders, and other crimes that were committed nightly in the streets.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	robberies	robbery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	murders	murder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	committed	committed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
34	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | day things |  | from bad; to worse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from thing=Initial\_Location from bad=Destination |
| 2 | **present** | past | every morning crowds | crowds *= crowd* |  |  | before the emperor |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | every morning crowds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the robberies and murders | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | other crimes |  |  | the streets |  | committed, nightly *property* | tree rules |

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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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