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title: But once again the rabbit's hopes were dashed to the ground, for Gud… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But once again the rabbit's hopes were dashed to the ground, for Gudu said hastily: Who acts: Gudu, rabbit. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 106

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But once again the rabbit's hopes were dashed to the ground, for Gudu said hastily:

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**Who acts:** Gudu, rabbit · **What happens:** dash, say, hope · **To what, where:** hopes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu, rabbit), 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:pg3027:3:106
# text = But once again the rabbit's hopes were dashed to the ground, for Gudu said hastily:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | past · passive |  | the rabbit's hopes |  |  | again | to the ground *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to ground=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gudu |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hope** |  | the rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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