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title: But Blanchette promised over and over again that she would never mor… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Blanchette promised over and over again that she would never more stop to listen to a Wolf, so that at last the mother forgave her. Who acts: Blanchette, mother. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 84

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But Blanchette promised over and over again that she would never more stop to listen to a Wolf, so that at last the mother forgave her.

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**Who acts:** Blanchette, mother · **What happens:** promise, stop, listen, forgive · **To what, where:** last, Blanchette

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blanchette, mother), 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:pg540:33:84
# text = But Blanchette promised over and over again that she would never more stop to listen to a Wolf, so that at last the mother forgave her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Blanchette |  |  |  | again | over *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** | would | Blanchette |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Blanchette *not said here* |  |  | last |  | to a Wolf | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wolf=Theme |
| 4 | **forgive** | past | the mother | Blanchette |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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