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title: Neither wife nor children were inclined to put much faith in him aft… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither wife nor children were inclined to put much faith in him after their last experience; however, they thought it was worth trying, and did as he told them. Who acts: children, faith, cock. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 112

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Neither wife nor children were inclined to put much faith in him after their last experience; however, they thought it was worth trying, and did as he told them.

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**Who acts:** children, faith, cock · **What happens:** incline, put, think, be, try, do · **To what, where:** wife, faith, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, faith, cock), 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:pg3282:9:112
# text = Neither wife nor children were inclined to put much faith in him after their last experience; however, they thought it was worth trying, and did as he told them.
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
25	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | past · passive |  | neither wife nor children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | faith |  |  | after children's last experience | in cock | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent faith=Theme in he=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | faith |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | gerund | faith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **do** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | cock |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 8 | **experience** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition 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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