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title: Her husband was heartily tired and ashamed of the whole affair, but… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her husband was heartily tired and ashamed of the whole affair, but his weakness in not putting a stop to it in the beginning had got him into this difficulty, and now he was forced to go on. Who acts: husband, weakness. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 70

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Her husband was heartily tired and ashamed of the whole affair, but his weakness in not putting a stop to it in the beginning had got him into this difficulty, and now he was forced to go on.

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**Who acts:** husband, weakness · **What happens:** be, not put, get, force, go on · **To what, where:** stop, weakness, beginning, husband, difficulty

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, weakness), 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:pg3454:19:70
# text = Her husband was heartily tired and ashamed of the whole affair, but his weakness in not putting a stop to it in the beginning had got him into this difficulty, and now he was forced to go on.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	on	on	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | judge's husband |  |  |  |  | heartily, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | judge's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the whole affair | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **put** | gerund | husband's weakness *not said here* | a stop | weakness |  | in the beginning |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stop=Theme in beginning=Destination |
| 4 | **get** | past · perfect | husband's weakness | husband |  | this difficulty |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **force** | past · passive |  | husband |  |  | now |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go on** | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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