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title: And besides, the Count seemed made of iron and was very proud of his… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And besides, the Count seemed made of iron and was very proud of his strength, often boasting that he should live to be a hundred. Who acts: Count. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 44

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And besides, the Count seemed made of iron and was very proud of his strength, often boasting that he should live to be a hundred.

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**Who acts:** Count · **What happens:** beside, make, be, boast, live · **To what, where:** Count, hundred

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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:pg540:42:44
# text = And besides, the Count seemed made of iron and was very proud of his strength, often boasting that he should live to be a hundred.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beside** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the Count |  |  |  | of iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of Count's strength; proud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live** | should | Count |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a hundred |  |  |  |  | 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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