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title: For some time the enraged fairy would listen to nothing; but at leng… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time the enraged fairy would listen to nothing; but at length the flatteries began to take effect. Who acts: enraged fairy. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 70

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For some time the enraged fairy would listen to nothing; but at length the flatteries began to take effect.

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**Who acts:** enraged fairy · **What happens:** enrage, listen, begin, take · **To what, where:** length, effect

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enraged fairy), 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:pg3027:22:70
# text = For some time the enraged fairy would listen to nothing; but at length the flatteries began to take effect.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flatteries	flattery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enrage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **listen** | would | the enraged fairy |  |  |  | time | to nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past |  |  |  | length and the flatteries |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | effect |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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