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title: But it was no use, neither words nor blows would get the secret out… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was no use, neither words nor blows would get the secret out of the boy; and when her arm was quite tired and she had to leave off, the child, sore and aching, ran into the garden and knelt weeping beside his little sword. Who acts: dream, words, arm, mother. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 90

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But it was no use, neither words nor blows would get the secret out of the boy; and when her arm was quite tired and she had to leave off, the child, sore and aching, ran into the garden and knelt weeping beside his little sword.

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**Who acts:** dream, words, arm, mother · **What happens:** be, get, have, leave off, ache, run · **To what, where:** use, secret, child, garden, little sword

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, words, arm, mother), 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:pg2435:6:90
# text = But it was no use, neither words nor blows would get the secret out of the boy; and when her arm was quite tired and she had to leave off, the child, sore and aching, ran into the garden and knelt weeping beside his little sword.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc:preconj	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
10	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	off	off	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	aching	ache	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
47	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	xcomp	_	_
48	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | dream | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | would | words nor blows | the secret |  |  |  | out the boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | mother's arm |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave off** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | the child |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ache** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **run** | past | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the garden *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result |
| 8 | **kneel** | past | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **weep** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  | Boy's little sword |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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