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title: All these kindnesses could hardly fail to make a favourable impressi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All these kindnesses could hardly fail to make a favourable impression on the cats, and it was even better after a while, when she had had time to grow accustomed to their strange ways. Who acts: kindnesses, impression, Lizina. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 19

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All these kindnesses could hardly fail to make a favourable impression on the cats, and it was even better after a while, when she had had time to grow accustomed to their strange ways.

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**Who acts:** kindnesses, impression, Lizina · **What happens:** fail, not make, be, have, grow, accustom · **To what, where:** favourable impression

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kindnesses, impression, Lizina), 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:pg2435:36:19
# text = All these kindnesses could hardly fail to make a favourable impression on the cats, and it was even better after a while, when she had had time to grow accustomed to their strange ways.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	kindnesses	kindness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | could | all kindnesses |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **make** | to-infinitive | all kindnesses *not said here* | a favourable impression |  |  |  | on the cats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | impression |  |  |  | while | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past · perfect | Lizina |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Lizina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **accustom** | participle | Lizina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Cats's strange ways | 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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