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title: Then the music master was asked to sell Gon to the lady, but he decl… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the music master was asked to sell Gon to the lady, but he declined to listen to any such suggestion, so everything remained as before. Who acts: music master, Gon. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 39

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Then the music master was asked to sell Gon to the lady, but he declined to listen to any such suggestion, so everything remained as before.

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**Who acts:** music master, Gon · **What happens:** ask, sell, decline, not listen, remain · **To what, where:** music master, Gon, lady, everything

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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 (music master, Gon), 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:pg5615:1:39
# text = Then the music master was asked to sell Gon to the lady, but he declined to listen to any such suggestion, so everything remained as before.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Gon	Gon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive |  | the music master |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the music master *not said here* | Gon | the lady |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gon=Theme to lady=Recipient |
| 3 | **decline** | past | Gon |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **listen** | to-infinitive | Gon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to any such suggestion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to suggestion=Theme |
| 5 | **remain** | participle · passive |  | everything |  |  |  | before *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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