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title: Cinderlad, however, did not trouble himself about what they said, bu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Cinderlad, however, did not trouble himself about what they said, but when evening drew near rambled away to the outlying field. Who acts: Cinderlad, others. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 11

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Cinderlad, however, did not trouble himself about what they said, but when evening drew near rambled away to the outlying field.

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**Who acts:** Cinderlad, others · **What happens:** do, say, ramble away, outlie · **To what, where:** trouble, outlying field · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, others), 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:pg503:48:11
# text = Cinderlad, however, did not trouble himself about what they said, but when evening drew near rambled away to the outlying field.
1	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	near	near	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	rambled	ramble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	outlying	outlie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Cinderlad | trouble  Cinderlad |  |  |  | however *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ramble away** | past | Cinderlad *not said here* |  |  | the outlying field | evening | away, near *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to field=Destination |
| 4 | **outlie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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