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title: After supper, they returned as they had come to the ebony room, wher… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After supper, they returned as they had come to the ebony room, where he was compelled to look on while his companions played interminable games of chess, and not until he was nearly dying of weariness did they, slowly and ceremoniously as before, conduct him to his sleeping apartment. Who acts: dis
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 79

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After supper, they returned as they had come to the ebony room, where he was compelled to look on while his companions played interminable games of chess, and not until he was nearly dying of weariness did they, slowly and ceremoniously as before, conduct him to his sleeping apartment.

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**Who acts:** dishes, companions, Prince · **What happens:** return, come, compel, look on, play, not die · **To what, where:** ebony room, Prince, interminable games, sleeping apartment

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishes, companions, Prince), 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:pg7277:36:79
# text = After supper, they returned as they had come to the ebony room, where he was compelled to look on while his companions played interminable games of chess, and not until he was nearly dying of weariness did they, slowly and ceremoniously as before, conduct him to his sleeping apartment.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	ebony	ebony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	interminable	interminable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	csubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	ceremoniously	ceremoniously	ADV	RB	_	43	conj	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	before	before	ADV	RB	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | dishes *= dish* |  |  |  | after supper |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | dishes *= dish* |  |  | the ebony room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **compel** | past · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **look on** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **play** | past | Prince's companions | interminable games of chess |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **die** | past · progressive | Prince |  |  |  |  | of weariness; nearly *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of weariness=Causer |
| 7 | **do** | past | dishes *= dish* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **conduct** | present | dishes *= dish* *not said here* | Prince |  | Prince's sleeping apartment |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to apartment=Destination |

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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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