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title: As the day was very hot and sultry he commanded his servants to pitc… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the day was very hot and sultry he commanded his servants to pitch tents in the open field, and there await the cool of the evening. Who acts: day, KING. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 12

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As the day was very hot and sultry he commanded his servants to pitch tents in the open field, and there await the cool of the evening.

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**Who acts:** day, KING · **What happens:** be, command, pitch, await · **To what, where:** servants, tents, open field, cool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, 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:pg7277:27:12
# text = As the day was very hot and sultry he commanded his servants to pitch tents in the open field, and there await the cool of the evening.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sultry	sultry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pitch	pitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	await	await	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cool	cool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the day |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **command** | past | KING | KING's servants |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pitch** | to-infinitive | KING *not said here* | tents |  | the open field |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme in field=Destination |
| 5 | **await** | present | KING *not said here* | the cool of the evening |  | there |  |  | 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 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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