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title: There was not an animal for miles round that did not grieve over thi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was not an animal for miles round that did not grieve over this shocking condition of affairs, not one at least except the puma. Who acts: animal, that. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 33

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There was not an animal for miles round that did not grieve over this shocking condition of affairs, not one at least except the puma.

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**Who acts:** animal, that · **What happens:** be, not grieve, condition · **To what, where:** shocking condition, affairs

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (animal, that), 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:pg3282:36:33
# text = There was not an animal for miles round that did not grieve over this shocking condition of affairs, not one at least except the puma.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nmod	_	_
24	except	except	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a animal |  |  | there |  | for miles | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **grieve** | past · do-support | that |  |  | this shocking condition of affairs |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **condition** |  |  | affairs |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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