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title: Neither scoldings nor beatings nor kind words had any effect on him,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither scoldings nor beatings nor kind words had any effect on him, and the older he grew the idler he got. Who acts: scoldings, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 81

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Neither scoldings nor beatings nor kind words had any effect on him, and the older he grew the idler he got.

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**Who acts:** scoldings, man · **What happens:** have, grow, get · **To what, where:** effect, idler

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scoldings, man), 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:pg2435:10:81
# text = Neither scoldings nor beatings nor kind words had any effect on him, and the older he grew the idler he got.
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	scoldings	scolding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
4	beatings	beating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	idler	idler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | neither scoldings nor beatings nor kind words | any effect |  |  |  | on man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | man | the idler |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idler=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | man | the idler *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idler=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:** «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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