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title: All the principal citizens had formed themselves into two parties, a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the principal citizens had formed themselves into two parties, and it was not until after a prolonged squabble that they agreed that the person to whom the most singular thing happened should be Emir. Who acts: principal citizens, city, citizens, singular thing. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Bo
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 61

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All the principal citizens had formed themselves into two parties, and it was not until after a prolonged squabble that they agreed that the person to whom the most singular thing happened should be Emir.

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**Who acts:** principal citizens, city, citizens, singular thing, person · **What happens:** form, prolong, not be, agree, happen, be · **To what, where:** citizens, two parties, prolonged squabble, Emir

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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 (principal citizens, city, citizens, singular thing), 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:pg7277:9:61
# text = All the principal citizens had formed themselves into two parties, and it was not until after a prolonged squabble that they agreed that the person to whom the most singular thing happened should be Emir.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
16	until	until	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	squabble	squabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · perfect | all principal citizens | citizens *= citizen* |  | two parties |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | city |  |  |  | until a prolonged squabble |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | citizens *= citizen* | a prolonged squabble *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent squabble=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | past | the singular thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | should | the person to Emir | Emir |  |  |  |  | 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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