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title: All these crimes, which could be traced to nobody, filled the people… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All these crimes, which could be traced to nobody, filled the people with astonishment. Who acts: crimes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 112

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All these crimes, which could be traced to nobody, filled the people with astonishment.

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**Who acts:** crimes · **What happens:** trace, fill · **To what, where:** crimes, people

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:19:112
# text = All these crimes, which could be traced to nobody, filled the people with astonishment.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | could · passive |  | all crimes |  |  |  | to nobody | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past | all crimes | the people |  |  |  | with astonishment | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with astonishment=Instrument |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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