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title: But they assured him there was sae; and he resolved to keep waking t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But they assured him there was sae; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear. Who acts: noise, sae, jewelry. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 73

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But they assured him there was sae; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear.

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**Who acts:** noise, sae, jewelry · **What happens:** assure, be, resolve, keep, wake, try · **To what, where:** jewelry

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, sae, jewelry), 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:pg503:55:73
# text = But they assured him there was sae; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	sae	sae	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | past | noise |  | jewelry |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **be** | past | sae |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | jewelry |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | jewelry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wake** | gerund | jewelry *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **try** | to-infinitive | jewelry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **hear** *not said to happen* | could | jewelry |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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