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title: But they assured him there was; and he resolved to keep waking that… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But they assured him there was; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear. Who acts: noise, aye. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 29

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But they assured him there was; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear.

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**Who acts:** noise, aye · **What happens:** assure, be, resolve, keep, wake, try · **To what, where:** aye

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, aye), 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:pg14241:17:29
# text = But they assured him there was; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | past | noise |  | aye |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **be** | past | noise *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | aye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | aye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wake** | gerund | aye *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **try** | to-infinitive | aye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **hear** *not said to happen* | could | aye |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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