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title: But for some reason they could hardly bear the sight of him, though… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But for some reason they could hardly bear the sight of him, though he tried much harder to make them comfortable than his brothers had ever done. Who acts: people, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 10

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But for some reason they could hardly bear the sight of him, though he tried much harder to make them comfortable than his brothers had ever done.

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**Who acts:** people, man · **What happens:** bear, try, make, do, sight · **To what, where:** sight, people, man

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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:pg2435:22:10
# text = But for some reason they could hardly bear the sight of him, though he tried much harder to make them comfortable than his brothers had ever done.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | could | people | the sight of man |  |  |  | for some reason; hardly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus for reason=Attribute |
| 2 | **try** | past | man |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | people |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | man *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | than man's brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | 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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