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title: And when the old woman heard this, she thought it was no use flatter… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the old woman heard this, she thought it was no use flattering him any longer, for never, never, could she take his strength from him. Who acts: old woman, woman, boar, use. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 75

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And when the old woman heard this, she thought it was no use flattering him any longer, for never, never, could she take his strength from him.

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**Who acts:** old woman, woman, boar, use · **What happens:** hear, think, be, flatter, not take · **To what, where:** this, use, Dragon, strength · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, boar, use), 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:pg2435:8:75
# text = And when the old woman heard this, she thought it was no use flattering him any longer, for never, never, could she take his strength from him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
15	flattering	flatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	any	any	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the old woman | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | boar | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flatter** | gerund | no use *not said here* | Dragon |  |  |  | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **take** | could | woman | Dragon's strength |  |  |  | from Dragon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent strength=Theme for never=Asset from he=Source |

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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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