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title: They were all fine young men, and fond of hunting, and scarcely a da… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were all fine young men, and fond of hunting, and scarcely a day passed without one or other of them going out to look for game. Who acts: cares. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 31

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They were all fine young men, and fond of hunting, and scarcely a day passed without one or other of them going out to look for game.

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**Who acts:** cares · **What happens:** be, pass, go out, look · **To what, where:** fine young men, day

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cares), 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:pg2435:8:31
# text = They were all fine young men, and fond of hunting, and scarcely a day passed without one or other of them going out to look for game.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | cares *= care* | fine young men |  |  | day | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | a day *not said here* |  |  |  | without one | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for game | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for game=Theme |

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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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