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title: Labakan was not quite so open in his confidences, but hinted that he… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Labakan was not quite so open in his confidences, but hinted that he too was of noble birth and was travelling for pleasure. Who acts: Labakan. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 46

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Labakan was not quite so open in his confidences, but hinted that he too was of noble birth and was travelling for pleasure.

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**Who acts:** Labakan · **What happens:** not be, hint, be, travel, confide · **To what, where:** confidences · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg2435:34:46
# text = Labakan was not quite so open in his confidences, but hinted that he too was of noble birth and was travelling for pleasure.
1	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	confidences	confidence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hinted	hint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Labakan |  |  | Labakan's confidences |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hint** *speech: other* | past | Labakan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Labakan |  |  |  |  | of noble birth | tree rules |
| 4 | **travel** | past · progressive | Labakan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for pleasure | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **confide** |  | Labakan |  |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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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