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title: This year the lot had fallen on the King’s daughter, and the whole c… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This year the lot had fallen on the King’s daughter, and the whole country was filled with woe and lamentation in consequence. Who acts: lot. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 21

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This year the lot had fallen on the King’s daughter, and the whole country was filled with woe and lamentation in consequence.

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**Who acts:** lot · **What happens:** fall, fill · **To what, where:** whole country

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot), 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:pg7277:56:21
# text = This year the lot had fallen on the King’s daughter, and the whole country was filled with woe and lamentation in consequence.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | the lot |  |  |  | year | on the King's daughter | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on daughter=Location |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the whole country |  |  |  | with woe and lamentation in consequence | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with woe=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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