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title: One after another they all took the donkey, but no money was forthco… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One after another they all took the donkey, but no money was forthcoming for anybody. Who acts: One, money. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 56

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One after another they all took the donkey, but no money was forthcoming for anybody.

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**Who acts:** One, money · **What happens:** take, forthcom · **To what, where:** donkey

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, money), 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:pg5615:17:56
# text = One after another they all took the donkey, but no money was forthcoming for anybody.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	nmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	forthcoming	forthcom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | One after another |  | the donkey |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument donkey=Destination |
| 2 | **forthcom** | past · progressive | no money |  |  |  |  | for anybody | tree rules |

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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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