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title: But the astonishing part of it was that the youngest sister did not… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the astonishing part of it was that the youngest sister did not seem at all to relish this method of stopping the mouth of the gardener’s boy, who, after all, had said nothing to their father. Who acts: astonishing part, method, boy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 149

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But the astonishing part of it was that the youngest sister did not seem at all to relish this method of stopping the mouth of the gardener’s boy, who, after all, had said nothing to their father.

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**Who acts:** astonishing part, method, boy · **What happens:** not be, relish, stop, say · **To what, where:** all, method, mouth, nothing, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishing part, method, boy), 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:pg540:2:149
# text = But the astonishing part of it was that the youngest sister did not seem at all to relish this method of stopping the mouth of the gardener’s boy, who, after all, had said nothing to their father.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	astonishing	astonishing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	relish	relish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | the astonishing part of way |  |  | all |  | seem *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **relish** | to-infinitive | the astonishing part of way *not said here* | this method |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer method=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stop** | gerund | this method *not said here* | the mouth of the gardener's boy |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mouth=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the gardener's boy | nothing | sisters's father |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to father=Recipient |

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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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