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title: By these and many other tricks he soon became so celebrated that his… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 79

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By these and many other tricks he soon became so celebrated that his fame reached the king’s ears, and his majesty was filled with curiosity to see the man who had managed to outwit everybody.

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**Who acts:** man, fame · **What happens:** become, celebrate, reach, fill, see, manage · **To what, where:** many other tricks, ears, majesty, man, everybody

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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 (man, fame), 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:pg5615:1:79
# text = By these and many other tricks he soon became so celebrated that his fame reached the king’s ears, and his majesty was filled with curiosity to see the man who had managed to outwit everybody.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	outwit	outwit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | man | many other tricks *not said here* |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | past | man's fame | the king's ears |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | man's majesty |  |  |  | with curiosity | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with curiosity=Instrument |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 6 | **manage** | past · perfect | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **outwit** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | everybody |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everybody=Theme |

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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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