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title: But he was very wroth, and none can blame him for that; so he caused… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he was very wroth, and none can blame him for that; so he caused the brother to be thrown into a pit full of snakes. Who acts: King, none. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 73

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But he was very wroth, and none can blame him for that; so he caused the brother to be thrown into a pit full of snakes.

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**Who acts:** King, none · **What happens:** be, blame, cause, throw · **To what, where:** King, brother, pit

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, none), 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:pg540:47:73
# text = But he was very wroth, and none can blame him for that; so he caused the brother to be thrown into a pit full of snakes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blame** | can | none | King |  |  |  | for that | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for that=Attribute |
| 3 | **cause** | past | King | the brother |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition brother=Patient |
| 4 | **throw** | to-infinitive · passive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a pit *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into pit=Result |

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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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