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title: Alas! there was now no way of concealing the mingled delight and ang… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas! there was now no way of concealing the mingled delight and anguish of our love; from secret it became known. Who acts: way, our. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 80

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Alas! there was now no way of concealing the mingled delight and anguish of our love; from secret it became known.

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**Who acts:** way, our · **What happens:** conceal, mingle, anguish, be, know, love · **To what, where:** mingled delight, secret

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, our), 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:pg3282:5:80
# text = Alas! there was now no way of concealing the mingled delight and anguish of our love; from secret it became known.
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	concealing	conceal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	anguish	anguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | gerund | no way *not said here* | the mingled delight |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient |
| 2 | **mingle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **anguish** | infinitive | no way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of our love | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | way |  |  | secret |  | become *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **love** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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