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title: But she tried to put him off with other statues, though it was no go… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she tried to put him off with other statues, though it was no good, and it was not until they had reached the last hall of all that he saw his brother lying on the ground. Who acts: joy, strength, brother. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 96

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But she tried to put him off with other statues, though it was no good, and it was not until they had reached the last hall of all that he saw his brother lying on the ground.

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**Who acts:** joy, strength, brother · **What happens:** try, put off, be, not be, see, lie · **To what, where:** brother, strength, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, strength, brother), 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:pg5615:23:96
# text = But she tried to put him off with other statues, though it was no good, and it was not until they had reached the last hall of all that he saw his brother lying on the ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | joy |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | joy *not said here* |  | brother |  |  | with other statues | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | past | strength |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past · perfect · passive |  | strength |  |  |  | reach *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | brother | brother's brother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund | brother's brother *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |

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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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