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title: For themselves, they remained hidden and disguised in the town, whic… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 56

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For themselves, they remained hidden and disguised in the town, which was really rather clever of them; but very soon afterwards Badi-al-Zaman died of vexation and annoyance at the loss of the promised treasure, and then they went back to their cottage to wait for news of their children.

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**Who acts:** children, town, Badi · **What happens:** remain, hide, disguise, be, die, promise · **To what, where:** loss

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, town, Badi), 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:pg7277:9:56
# text = For themselves, they remained hidden and disguised in the town, which was really rather clever of them; but very soon afterwards Badi-al-Zaman died of vexation and annoyance at the loss of the promised treasure, and then they went back to their cottage to wait for news of their children.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	Badi	Badi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
30	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
47	back	back	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for children *= child* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | participle | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **disguise** | participle | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the town | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in town=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the town |  |  |  |  | of children *= child*; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | past | Badi |  |  | the loss of the promised treasure |  | of vexation and annoyance; afterwards *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of vexation=Causer |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go back** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | then | to children's cottage *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cottage=Result |
| 8 | **wait** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for news of children's children | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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