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title: For the rest he has a good heart but a bad memory, and forgets his f… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For the rest he has a good heart but a bad memory, and forgets his father’s and his mother’s admonitions, and so often gets into trouble and meets with adventures, as you shall hear, but first of all I must tell you how brave he was and how he hunted wolves. Who acts: Walter, you, I, mother. A sente
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 114

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For the rest he has a good heart but a bad memory, and forgets his father’s and his mother’s admonitions, and so often gets into trouble and meets with adventures, as you shall hear, but first of all I must tell you how brave he was and how he hunted wolves.

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**Who acts:** Walter, you, I, mother · **What happens:** have, forget, get, meet, hear, tell · **To what, where:** good heart, father, trouble, you, wolves · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, you, I, mother), 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:pg3454:7:114
# text = For the rest he has a good heart but a bad memory, and forgets his father’s and his mother’s admonitions, and so often gets into trouble and meets with adventures, as you shall hear, but first of all I must tell you how brave he was and how he hunted wolves.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	forgets	forget	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	admonitions	admonition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	47	advmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	obl	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	iobj	_	_
49	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
50	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advcl	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	56	advmod	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
57	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Walter | a good heart but a bad memory |  |  |  | for the rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 2 | **forget** | present | Walter *not said here* | Walter's father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | Walter *not said here* |  |  | trouble |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |
| 4 | **meet** | present | Walter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with adventures | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **hear** | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | I |  | you |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | past | Walter |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **hunt** | past | Walter | wolves |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
| 9 | **admonish** |  | Walter's mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom admonition «communication 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 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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