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title: Now the grand hunting party comes back, and the castle upon the twel… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 46

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Now the grand hunting party comes back, and the castle upon the twelve golden pillars had disappeared, to the great disappointment of those gentlemen as did not see it before.

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**Who acts:** grand hunting party · **What happens:** come back, disappear, not see, disappoint · **To what, where:** castle, gentlemen

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand hunting party), 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:pg7439:20:46
# text = Now the grand hunting party comes back, and the castle upon the twelve golden pillars had disappeared, to the great disappointment of those gentlemen as did not see it before.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | present | the grand hunting party |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **disappear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the castle upon the twelve golden pillars |  |  |  | to the great disappointment of that gentlemen | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · do-support |  | castle |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **disappoint** |  |  | that gentlemen |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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