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title: But even that did not trouble Peter much; he was quite satisfied wit… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But even that did not trouble Peter much; he was quite satisfied with what he had already. Who acts: that, Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 41

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But even that did not trouble Peter much; he was quite satisfied with what he had already.

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**Who acts:** that, Peter · **What happens:** do, be, have · **To what, where:** trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Peter), 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:pg2435:17:41
# text = But even that did not trouble Peter much; he was quite satisfied with what he had already.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	already	already	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | that | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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