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title: But, no! he had guessed rightly, for in no more time than his nose h… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, no! he had guessed rightly, for in no more time than his nose had taken to grow long did it take to return to its proper size. Who acts: shrinking, more time. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 24

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But, no! he had guessed rightly, for in no more time than his nose had taken to grow long did it take to return to its proper size.

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**Who acts:** shrinking, more time · **What happens:** guess, take, grow, return · **To what, where:** nose

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrinking, more time), 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:pg2435:12:24
# text = But, no! he had guessed rightly, for in no more time than his nose had taken to grow long did it take to return to its proper size.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	expl	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past · perfect | shrinking |  |  |  | time | rightly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | no more time *not said here* | shrinking's nose |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | no more time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past · do-support | no more time *not said here* | nose |  |  |  | long *property* | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 5 | **return** | to-infinitive | no more time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to nose's proper size *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to size=Result |

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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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