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title: Now Tiidu thought it would not look well to cure the royal family by… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Tiidu thought it would not look well to cure the royal family by giving them the raw nuts; he felt that it might arouse suspicion. Who acts: Tiidu, nose. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 48

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Now Tiidu thought it would not look well to cure the royal family by giving them the raw nuts; he felt that it might arouse suspicion.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, nose · **What happens:** think, not look, cure, give, feel, arouse · **To what, where:** royal family, raw nuts, summons, suspicion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tiidu, nose), 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:pg2435:12:48
# text = Now Tiidu thought it would not look well to cure the royal family by giving them the raw nuts; he felt that it might arouse suspicion.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	arouse	arouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Tiidu |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **look** | would | nose |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cure** | to-infinitive | nose *not said here* | the royal family |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer family=Source |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | nose *not said here* | the raw nuts | summons *= summon* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nut=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **arouse** | might | nose | suspicion |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suspicion=Experiencer |

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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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