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title: But this excited their curiosity so greatly that presently he told t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But this excited their curiosity so greatly that presently he told them his adventures from beginning to end, and then they were all very unhappy. Who acts: curiosity, daughters. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 95

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But this excited their curiosity so greatly that presently he told them his adventures from beginning to end, and then they were all very unhappy.

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**Who acts:** curiosity, daughters · **What happens:** tell, be, adventure · **To what, where:** adventures, daughters, beginning · **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 (curiosity, daughters), 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:pg503:14:95
# text = But this excited their curiosity so greatly that presently he told them his adventures from beginning to end, and then they were all very unhappy.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | curiosity | curiosity's adventures | daughters *= daughter* |  | from beginning; to end | presently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | then | all, unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **adventure** |  | curiosity |  |  |  | from beginning |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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