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title: This time the Count resolved to go to Locquignol himself; but, as he… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the Count resolved to go to Locquignol himself; but, as he was very weak and unable to walk, he had himself borne in a litter. 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 88

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This time the Count resolved to go to Locquignol himself; but, as he was very weak and unable to walk, he had himself borne in a litter.

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**Who acts:** Count · **What happens:** resolve, go, be, walk, bear · **To what, where:** Count, Locquignol, litter

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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:pg540:42:88
# text = This time the Count resolved to go to Locquignol himself; but, as he was very weak and unable to walk, he had himself borne in a litter.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Locquignol	Locquignol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | the Count |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Count *not said here* | Count |  | Locquignol |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to locquignol=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Count |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Count *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** | to-infinitive | Count *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bear** | past · perfect | the Count *not said here* |  |  | a litter |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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