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title: She implored Houarn not to leave her, but he would listen to nothing. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She implored Houarn not to leave her, but he would listen to nothing. Who acts: girl, Houarn. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 86

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She implored Houarn not to leave her, but he would listen to nothing.

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**Who acts:** girl, Houarn · **What happens:** implore, not leave, listen · **To what, where:** Houarn, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Houarn), 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:pg3454:33:86
# text = She implored Houarn not to leave her, but he would listen to nothing.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **implore** | past | girl |  | Houarn |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent houarn=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | would | Houarn |  |  |  |  | to nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=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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