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title: These explanations have frequently been offered already; but, as far… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These explanations have frequently been offered already; but, as far as ladies and children are concerned, to no purpose. Who acts: ladies. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 9

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These explanations have frequently been offered already; but, as far as ladies and children are concerned, to no purpose.

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**Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** offer, be · **To what, where:** explanations, purpose

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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:pg2435:1:9
# text = These explanations have frequently been offered already; but, as far as ladies and children are concerned, to no purpose.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	explanations	explanation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present · perfect · passive |  | this explanations |  |  |  | to no purpose *goal*; frequently *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to purpose=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | present | ladies and children |  |  |  |  | concerned, far *property* | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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