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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 34

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So the lute player stayed on in the palace and sang and played almost all day long to the king, who could never tire of listening and almost forgot to eat or drink or to torment people.

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**Who acts:** lute player, king · **What happens:** stay on, sing, play, not tire, forget, not eat · **To what, where:** palace, people

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lute player, king), 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:pg641:8:34
# text = So the lute player stayed on in the palace and sang and played almost all day long to the king, who could never tire of listening and almost forgot to eat or drink or to torment people.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	tire	tire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	listening	listening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	torment	torment	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay on** | past | the lute player |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the lute player *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | the lute player *not said here* |  |  |  | day | to the king; long *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **tire** | could | the king |  |  |  |  | of listening | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **forget** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **drink** | infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **torment** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |

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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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