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title: (for no dogs ever passed that way by any chance), and he went out to… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: (for no dogs ever passed that way by any chance), and he went out to see if he could be of any use. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 214

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(for no dogs ever passed that way by any chance), and he went out to see if he could be of any use.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** pass, go out, see, be · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg540:11:214
# text = (for no dogs ever passed that way by any chance), and he went out to see if he could be of any use.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past |  | that way |  |  | ever | for no dogs; by any chance | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent way=Theme by chance=Destination |
| 2 | **go out** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | dog |  |  |  |  | of any use | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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