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title: The struggle had been hard, but Alonzo had his reward next day in th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The struggle had been hard, but Alonzo had his reward next day in the joy and relief with which Julia greeted him. Who acts: struggle, Alonzo, Julia. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 118

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The struggle had been hard, but Alonzo had his reward next day in the joy and relief with which Julia greeted him.

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**Who acts:** struggle, Alonzo, Julia · **What happens:** be, have, greet, reward · **To what, where:** reward, joy, Alonzo

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (struggle, Alonzo, Julia), 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:pg3282:10:118
# text = The struggle had been hard, but Alonzo had his reward next day in the joy and relief with which Julia greeted him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the struggle |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Alonzo | Alonzo's reward |  | the joy and relief | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | Julia |  | Alonzo |  |  | with relief | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **reward** |  | Alonzo |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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