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title: So much did he practice that in the long run he became a wonderful s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So much did he practice that in the long run he became a wonderful shot, and was heard of even where he had never been seen. Who acts: father, practice. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 109

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So much did he practice that in the long run he became a wonderful shot, and was heard of even where he had never been seen.

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**Who acts:** father, practice · **What happens:** do, practice, become, hear, not see · **To what, where:** wonderful shot, long run, father

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, practice), 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:pg2435:29:109
# text = So much did he practice that in the long run he became a wonderful shot, and was heard of even where he had never been seen.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	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 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **practice** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | practice | a wonderful shot |  |  |  | in the long run *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in run=Result |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | father |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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