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title: It is calculated that eleven hundred persons have at different times… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is calculated that eleven hundred persons have at different times suffered rather than break their eggs at the smaller end. Who acts: hundred persons, different times. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 46

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It is calculated that eleven hundred persons have at different times suffered rather than break their eggs at the smaller end.

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**Who acts:** hundred persons, different times · **What happens:** calculate, have, suffer, break · **To what, where:** life, eggs, smaller end

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred persons, different times), 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:pg503:45:46
# text = It is calculated that eleven hundred persons have at different times suffered rather than break their eggs at the smaller end.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	calculated	calculate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **calculate** | present · passive |  | life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | hundred persons |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **suffer** | past | different times |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **break** | infinitive | different times *not said here* | Emperor's eggs |  |  | at the smaller end |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient |

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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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