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title: So poor little Koma was left alone, while Gon was borne away full of… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So poor little Koma was left alone, while Gon was borne away full of trouble, not in the least knowing what to do. 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 49

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So poor little Koma was left alone, while Gon was borne away full of trouble, not in the least knowing what to do.

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**What happens:** leave, bear away, know, do · **To what, where:** poor little Koma, Gon, least

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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: 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:pg5615:1:49
# text = So poor little Koma was left alone, while Gon was borne away full of trouble, not in the least knowing what to do.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Koma	Koma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Gon	Gon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obl	_	_
22	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | poor little Koma |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bear away** | past · passive |  | Gon |  | the least |  | away, full *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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