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title: When he saw this the muleteer’s anger knew no bounds, and forgetting… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he saw this the muleteer’s anger knew no bounds, and forgetting that without the help given him he would have lost his mule altogether, he began to abuse the poor man, declaring that he had ruined his beast, and the law would make him pay for it. Who acts: mule, anger, help, law. A sentence of 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 95

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When he saw this the muleteer’s anger knew no bounds, and forgetting that without the help given him he would have lost his mule altogether, he began to abuse the poor man, declaring that he had ruined his beast, and the law would make him pay for it.

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**Who acts:** mule, anger, help, law, muleteer · **What happens:** see, know, forget, give, lose, begin · **To what, where:** this, bounds, that, mule, poor man, beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mule, anger, help, law), 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:pg3454:19:95
# text = When he saw this the muleteer’s anger knew no bounds, and forgetting that without the help given him he would have lost his mule altogether, he began to abuse the poor man, declaring that he had ruined his beast, and the law would make him pay for it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	muleteer	muleteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	bounds	bound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	abuse	abuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	ccomp	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | mule | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | past | the muleteer's anger | no bounds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus |
| 3 | **forget** | gerund | mule *not said here* | that |  |  |  | without the help | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | participle | the help *not said here* | mule |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | would · perfect | mule | mule's mule |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Eventuality |
| 6 | **begin** | past | mule |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **abuse** | to-infinitive | mule *not said here* | the poor man |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 8 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | mule *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **ruin** | past · perfect | mule | mule's beast |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient |
| 10 | **make** | would | the law | mule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **pay** | infinitive | mule *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for law | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 12 | **anger** |  | the muleteer |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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