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title: After seven years, however, Destiny seemed to get tired of persecuti… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After seven years, however, Destiny seemed to get tired of persecuting her, and a time of peace set in for Catherine. Who acts: Destiny. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 104

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After seven years, however, Destiny seemed to get tired of persecuting her, and a time of peace set in for Catherine.

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**Who acts:** Destiny · **What happens:** seem, get, persecute, set in · **To what, where:** Destiny

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Destiny), 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:pg5615:18:104
# text = After seven years, however, Destiny seemed to get tired of persecuting her, and a time of peace set in for Catherine.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	persecuting	persecute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Destiny |  |  |  | year | however *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Destiny *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **persecute** | gerund | Destiny *not said here* | Destiny |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **set in** | participle | Destiny *not said here* |  |  |  | time | for Catherine | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for catherine=Beneficiary |

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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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