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title: Some weeks passed, during which the peasant did not come round to as… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some weeks passed, during which the peasant did not come round to ask after the calf, being frightened lest it should cost him another hundred dollars, for he had begun to squirm a bit at having to part with so much money. Who acts: weeks, peasant, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 23

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Some weeks passed, during which the peasant did not come round to ask after the calf, being frightened lest it should cost him another hundred dollars, for he had begun to squirm a bit at having to part with so much money.

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**Who acts:** weeks, peasant, man · **What happens:** pass, not come round, ask, frighten, cost, begin · **To what, where:** hundred dollars, man, bit, part

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weeks, peasant, man), 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:pg5615:14:23
# text = Some weeks passed, during which the peasant did not come round to ask after the calf, being frightened lest it should cost him another hundred dollars, for he had begun to squirm a bit at having to part with so much money.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	squirm	squirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | some weeks |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **come round** | past · do-support | the peasant |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the peasant *not said here* |  |  |  | after the calf |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **frighten** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **cost** | should | peasant | hundred dollars | man |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary dollar=Value |
| 6 | **begin** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **squirm** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a bit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | gerund | man *not said here* | part |  |  |  | with much money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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