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title: This discouraged the old people so much that they gave up all though… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This discouraged the old people so much that they gave up all thought of finishing the journey, and only wished to get back to Denmark as quickly as they could. Who acts: This, people, thought. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependenc
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 84

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This discouraged the old people so much that they gave up all thought of finishing the journey, and only wished to get back to Denmark as quickly as they could.

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**Who acts:** This, people, thought · **What happens:** discourage, give up, finish, wish, get back · **To what, where:** old people, thought, journey, Denmark

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, people, thought), 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:pg2435:30:84
# text = This discouraged the old people so much that they gave up all thought of finishing the journey, and only wished to get back to Denmark as quickly as they could.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	discouraged	discourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	finishing	finish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discourage** | past | This | the old people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give up** | past | people | all thought |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Source |
| 3 | **finish** | gerund | all thought *not said here* | the journey |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality journey=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wish** | participle | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **get back** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  | Denmark |  |  | quickly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to denmark=Result |

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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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