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title: The cottage was always full of village children, for they amused Sno… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The cottage was always full of village children, for they amused Snowflake, and there was nothing in the world they would not have done to amuse her. Who acts: cottage, children, nothing. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 31

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The cottage was always full of village children, for they amused Snowflake, and there was nothing in the world they would not have done to amuse her.

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**Who acts:** cottage, children, nothing · **What happens:** be, amuse, not do · **To what, where:** Snowflake

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cottage, children, nothing), 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:pg5615:16:31
# text = The cottage was always full of village children, for they amused Snowflake, and there was nothing in the world they would not have done to amuse her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cottage |  |  |  |  | of village children; always, full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **amuse** | past | children *= child* | Snowflake |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus snowflake=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** | would · perfect | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | Snowflake |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

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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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