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title: That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the gre… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the great harper--king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William and all their Court. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 76

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That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the great harper--king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William and all their Court.

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**What happens:** gather, hear · **To what, where:** night, castle hall, great harper

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. 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:pg7439:13:76
# text = That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the great harper--king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William and all their Court.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	harper	harper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · passive |  | that night |  | the castle hall |  | all *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | the great harper |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer harper=Stimulus |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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