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title: She found him rather heavy, but it would never have done to let him… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She found him rather heavy, but it would never have done to let him walk through the wood and risk his being seen by somebody. Who acts: Ungarische, man, somebody. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 31

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She found him rather heavy, but it would never have done to let him walk through the wood and risk his being seen by somebody.

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**Who acts:** Ungarische, man, somebody · **What happens:** find, not do, let, walk, risk, see · **To what, where:** man, body, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ungarische, man, somebody), 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:pg2435:32:31
# text = She found him rather heavy, but it would never have done to let him walk through the wood and risk his being seen by somebody.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	risk	risk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Ungarische | man |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **do** | would · perfect · passive |  | body |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |
| 5 | **risk** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | gerund · passive | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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