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title: But nothing could move the prince, and seeing this the bird went on:… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But nothing could move the prince, and seeing this the bird went on: “Well, so be it! Who acts: nothing, seeing. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 105

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But nothing could move the prince, and seeing this the bird went on: “Well, so be it!

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**Who acts:** nothing, seeing · **What happens:** move, see, go on, be · **To what, where:** prince, this, journey

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, seeing), 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:pg3282:4:105
# text = But nothing could move the prince, and seeing this the bird went on: “Well, so be it!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	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 | **move** | could | nothing | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme prince=Result |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | past | seeing |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | journey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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