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title: He was just as hospitably entertained at first, and then just as cru… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was just as hospitably entertained at first, and then just as cruelly beaten and belaboured, so that next morning he too lay in his bed like a wounded hare, assuring his friends that the task of getting into the haunted castle was no enviable one. Who acts: fiddler, task. A sentence of «The Green
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 31

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He was just as hospitably entertained at first, and then just as cruelly beaten and belaboured, so that next morning he too lay in his bed like a wounded hare, assuring his friends that the task of getting into the haunted castle was no enviable one.

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**Who acts:** fiddler, task · **What happens:** be, beat, belabour, lie, assure, get · **To what, where:** bed, friends, haunted castle, enviable one

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiddler, task), 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:pg7277:55:31
# text = He was just as hospitably entertained at first, and then just as cruelly beaten and belaboured, so that next morning he too lay in his bed like a wounded hare, assuring his friends that the task of getting into the haunted castle was no enviable one.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	hospitably	hospitably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	entertained	entertained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	belaboured	belabour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	assuring	assure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
48	enviable	enviable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | fiddler |  |  |  |  | entertained, hospitably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | cruelly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **belabour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past | fiddler |  |  | fiddler's bed | morning | like a wounded hare | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 5 | **assure** | gerund | fiddler *not said here* |  | fiddler's friends |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 6 | **get** | gerund | the task *not said here* |  |  | the haunted castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into castle=Destination |
| 7 | **haunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is a** | past | the task | no enviable one |  |  |  |  | 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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