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title: ‘Down, Caro! you ought to be rather ashamed to have put such a great… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Down, Caro! you ought to be rather ashamed to have put such a great hero to flight!’ A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 89

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‘Down, Caro! you ought to be rather ashamed to have put such a great hero to flight!’

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**What happens:** be, put · **To what, where:** great hero

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3454:8:89
# text = ‘Down, Caro! you ought to be rather ashamed to have put such a great hero to flight!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Caro	Caro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | such great hero |  |  |  | to flight | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hero=Goal |

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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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