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title: But his heart was no softer than his brother’s, and every man that w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But his heart was no softer than his brother’s, and every man that was not a skilled workman was chased away with hard words. Who acts: heart, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 38

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But his heart was no softer than his brother’s, and every man that was not a skilled workman was chased away with hard words.

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**Who acts:** heart, man · **What happens:** not be, chase away · **To what, where:** skilled workman, man

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, 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:pg5615:19:38
# text = But his heart was no softer than his brother’s, and every man that was not a skilled workman was chased away with hard words.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | brother's heart |  |  |  |  | than brother's brother; soft *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | every man | a skilled workman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase away** | past · passive |  | every man |  |  |  | with hard words; away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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