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title: And they began their search all over again; but neither fairies nor… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they began their search all over again; but neither fairies nor wild beasts did they meet with, and with sore hearts they gave it up at last and turned sadly into the hut. Who acts: fairies. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependenc
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 104

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And they began their search all over again; but neither fairies nor wild beasts did they meet with, and with sore hearts they gave it up at last and turned sadly into the hut.

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**Who acts:** fairies · **What happens:** begin, meet, give up, turn, search · **To what, where:** search, beast, last, hut

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies), 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:pg2435:9:104
# text = And they began their search all over again; but neither fairies nor wild beasts did they meet with, and with sore hearts they gave it up at last and turned sadly into the hut.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **begin** | past | fairies *= fairy* | fairies's search |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality |
| 2 | **meet** | past · do-support | neither fairies nor wild beasts |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give up** | past | fairies *= fairy* | beast |  | last |  | with sore hearts | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
| 4 | **turn** | past | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* |  |  | the hut |  | sadly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hut=Trajectory |
| 5 | **search** |  | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act 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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