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title: But the sight of these things only made Tiidu more covetous than bef… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sight of these things only made Tiidu more covetous than before. Who acts: sight. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 46

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But the sight of these things only made Tiidu more covetous than before.

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**Who acts:** sight · **What happens:** make, sight · **To what, where:** things

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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:pg2435:11:46
# text = But the sight of these things only made Tiidu more covetous than before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	covetous	covetous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the sight of this things |  |  |  |  | covetous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **sight** |  |  | this things |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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:** «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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