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title: But, though Isuro knew better than to believe him, he said nothing,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, though Isuro knew better than to believe him, he said nothing, and went to bed hungrier than he had ever been in his life. Who acts: Isuro, Gudu. 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 116

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But, though Isuro knew better than to believe him, he said nothing, and went to bed hungrier than he had ever been in his life.

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**Who acts:** Isuro, Gudu · **What happens:** know, believe, say, go, be · **To what, where:** Isuro, nothing, bed · **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 (Isuro, Gudu), 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:pg3027:3:116
# text = But, though Isuro knew better than to believe him, he said nothing, and went to bed hungrier than he had ever been in his life.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
6	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Isuro |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive | Isuro *not said here* | Isuro |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gudu | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | Gudu *not said here* |  |  | bed |  | hungry *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | Gudu |  |  |  | ever | than Gudu's life | tree rules |

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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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