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title: Things went on like this for some time, and the master put up with L… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Things went on like this for some time, and the master put up with Labakan’s absurdities because he was, on the whole, a good fellow and a clever workman. Who acts: Things, master, Labakan. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 29

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Things went on like this for some time, and the master put up with Labakan’s absurdities because he was, on the whole, a good fellow and a clever workman.

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**Who acts:** Things, master, Labakan · **What happens:** go on, put up, be

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, master, Labakan), 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:pg2435:34:29
# text = Things went on like this for some time, and the master put up with Labakan’s absurdities because he was, on the whole, a good fellow and a clever workman.
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	absurdities	absurdity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | Things |  |  |  | time | like this | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put up** | past | the master |  |  |  |  | with Labakan's absurdities | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Labakan |  |  |  |  | a good fellow and a clever workman *obl*; whole *property* | tree rules |

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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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