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title: The captain, who was not in the least angry, seized the guitar and b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The captain, who was not in the least angry, seized the guitar and began to play; but, let him play as loud as he would, the dead woman never stirred. Who acts: captain, dead woman. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 86

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The captain, who was not in the least angry, seized the guitar and began to play; but, let him play as loud as he would, the dead woman never stirred.

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**Who acts:** captain, dead woman · **What happens:** not be, seize, begin, play, let, not stir · **To what, where:** guitar, captain

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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 (captain, dead woman), 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:pg5615:17:86
# text = The captain, who was not in the least angry, seized the guitar and began to play; but, let him play as loud as he would, the dead woman never stirred.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the captain |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | past | the captain | the guitar |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | the captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | the captain *not said here* | captain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **play** | infinitive | captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **stir** | past | the dead woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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