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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 89

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And perhaps Lineik, who had not forgotten the past either, might have left her alone, to get on as best she could, had not Sigurd, her brother, implored her to help just once more.

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**Who acts:** Lineik · **What happens:** not forget, leave, get on, have, implore, help · **To what, where:** past, Lineik, Sigurd

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lineik), 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:pg2435:23:89
# text = And perhaps Lineik, who had not forgotten the past either, might have left her alone, to get on as best she could, had not Sigurd, her brother, implored her to help just once more.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	parataxis	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	just	just	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	37	advmod	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | past · perfect | Lineik | the past |  |  |  | either *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | might · perfect |  | Lineik |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **get on** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past |  | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigurd=Patient |
| 5 | **implore** | past |  |  | Lineik |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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