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title: At length the love of the couple grew to such a pitch that they dete… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the love of the couple grew to such a pitch that they determined to please themselves, and to seek their fortunes together. Who acts: love, matters. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 40

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At length the love of the couple grew to such a pitch that they determined to please themselves, and to seek their fortunes together.

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**Who acts:** love, matters · **What happens:** grow, determine, please, seek, love · **To what, where:** length, matters, fortunes, couple

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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 (love, matters), 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:pg5615:1:40
# text = At length the love of the couple grew to such a pitch that they determined to please themselves, and to seek their fortunes together.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the love of the couple |  |  | length |  | to such pitch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **determine** | past | matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **please** | to-infinitive | matters *= matter* *not said here* | matters *= matter* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the love of the couple *not said here* | matters's fortunes |  |  |  | together *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 5 | **love** |  |  | the couple |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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