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title: In the rapture of their newly-given lives master and servant fell la… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the rapture of their newly-given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other’s arms. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 170

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In the rapture of their newly-given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other’s arms.

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**What happens:** give, servant, fall, laugh, weep · **To what, where:** rapture, arms

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:7:170
# text = In the rapture of their newly-given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other’s arms.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
6	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	servant	servant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **servant** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | the rapture of storks's master |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **weep** | gerund |  | each other's arms |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |

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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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