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title: It came to this, that the Hall of Justice would have to be closed! — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It came to this, that the Hall of Justice would have to be closed! Who acts: justice, Hall. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 78

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It came to this, that the Hall of Justice would have to be closed!

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**Who acts:** justice, Hall · **What happens:** come, have, close · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (justice, Hall), 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:pg7128:19:78
# text = It came to this, that the Hall of Justice would have to be closed!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | justice |  |  | this |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | would | the Hall of Justice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **close** | to-infinitive · passive | the Hall of Justice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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