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title: But they soon found that they were left alone, and that their former… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But they soon found that they were left alone, and that their former friends even attributed their misfortunes to their own extravagance, and showed no intention of offering them any help. Who acts: friends, former friends, intention. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 9

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But they soon found that they were left alone, and that their former friends even attributed their misfortunes to their own extravagance, and showed no intention of offering them any help.

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**Who acts:** friends, former friends, intention · **What happens:** find, leave, attribute, show, offer · **To what, where:** friends, misfortunes, intention · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, former friends, intention), 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:pg503:14:9
# text = But they soon found that they were left alone, and that their former friends even attributed their misfortunes to their own extravagance, and showed no intention of offering them any help.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	extravagance	extravagance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **attribute** | past | friends's former friends | friends's misfortunes |  |  |  | to friends's own extravagance | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | no intention |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent intention=Recipient |
| 5 | **offer** | gerund | no intention *not said here* | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal help=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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