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title: So he made no difficulty about it; and as soon as he could get thing… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he made no difficulty about it; and as soon as he could get things ready, he set out for Nekabad with this new and princely gift. Who acts: matter. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 49

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So he made no difficulty about it; and as soon as he could get things ready, he set out for Nekabad with this new and princely gift.

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**Who acts:** matter · **What happens:** make, get, set out · **To what, where:** difficulty, things

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter), 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:pg3282:34:49
# text = So he made no difficulty about it; and as soon as he could get things ready, he set out for Nekabad with this new and princely gift.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Nekabad	Nekabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | matter | no difficulty |  |  |  | about difficulty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Product |
| 2 | **get** | could | matter | things |  |  |  | ready, soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **set out** | past | matter |  |  |  |  | for Nekabad; with this new gift | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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