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title: He could hardly be persuaded to touch food, and all night long he la… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He could hardly be persuaded to touch food, and all night long he lay moaning, partly with pain, and partly over his own folly in not having begged the doctor to make him several dozens of white slippers, so that in case of accidents he might always have one to put on. Who acts: intelligence, own fo
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 75

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He could hardly be persuaded to touch food, and all night long he lay moaning, partly with pain, and partly over his own folly in not having begged the doctor to make him several dozens of white slippers, so that in case of accidents he might always have one to put on.

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**Who acts:** intelligence, own folly, one · **What happens:** persuade, touch, lie, moan, beg, make · **To what, where:** intelligence, own folly, food, doctor, several dozens, one

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intelligence, own folly, one), 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:pg3027:37:75
# text = He could hardly be persuaded to touch food, and all night long he lay moaning, partly with pain, and partly over his own folly in not having begged the doctor to make him several dozens of white slippers, so that in case of accidents he might always have one to put on.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	aux	_	_
31	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
43	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	52	advmod	_	_
52	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	obj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | could · passive |  | intelligence |  | intelligence's own folly |  | hardly *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **touch** | to-infinitive | intelligence *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | past | intelligence |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **moan** | gerund | intelligence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pain | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund · perfect | intelligence's own folly *not said here* | the doctor |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | intelligence's own folly *not said here* | several dozens of white slippers | intelligence |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary dozen=Product |
| 7 | **have** | might | intelligence | one |  | case of accidents |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **put on** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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