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title: Gon had long felt that it was time for him to find a wife, for all t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Gon had long felt that it was time for him to find a wife, for all the ladies in the neighbourhood paid him so much attention that it made him quite shy; but he was not easy to please, and did not care about any of them. Who acts: Gon, mistress, ladies. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 35

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Gon had long felt that it was time for him to find a wife, for all the ladies in the neighbourhood paid him so much attention that it made him quite shy; but he was not easy to please, and did not care about any of them.

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**Who acts:** Gon, mistress, ladies · **What happens:** feel, be, find, pay, make, not be · **To what, where:** time, wife, Gon

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gon, mistress, ladies), 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:pg5615:1:35
# text = Gon had long felt that it was time for him to find a wife, for all the ladies in the neighbourhood paid him so much attention that it made him quite shy; but he was not easy to please, and did not care about any of them.
1	Gon	Gon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
47	about	about	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · perfect | Gon |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | mistress | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Gon | a wife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
| 4 | **pay** | past | all ladies in the neighbourhood |  | Gon |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient attention=Asset |
| 5 | **make** | past | mistress | Gon |  |  |  | shy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | Gon |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **please** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **not** **care** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | about any | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about any=Stimulus |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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