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title: It was no use to try force, he must invent some cunning plan which w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was no use to try force, he must invent some cunning plan which would get her into his power. Who acts: bear, Wolverine, cunning plan. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 119

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It was no use to try force, he must invent some cunning plan which would get her into his power.

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**Who acts:** bear, Wolverine, cunning plan · **What happens:** be, try, invent, get · **To what, where:** use, force, cunning plan, food, power

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, Wolverine, cunning plan), 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:pg3282:16:119
# text = It was no use to try force, he must invent some cunning plan which would get her into his power.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bear | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive |  | force |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Eventuality |
| 3 | **invent** | must | Wolverine | some cunning plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 4 | **get** | would | some cunning plan | food |  | Wolverine's power |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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