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title: But the harder she pulled the firmer seemed the plant, and at last,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the harder she pulled the firmer seemed the plant, and at last, determined not to be beaten, she gave one great tug, and the rosemary remained in her hands. Who acts: girl, firmer, rosemary. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tre
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 2

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But the harder she pulled the firmer seemed the plant, and at last, determined not to be beaten, she gave one great tug, and the rosemary remained in her hands.

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**Who acts:** girl, firmer, rosemary · **What happens:** pull, seem, not beat, give, remain · **To what, where:** plant, one great tug, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, firmer, rosemary), 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:pg5615:25:2
# text = But the harder she pulled the firmer seemed the plant, and at last, determined not to be beaten, she gave one great tug, and the rosemary remained in her hands.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	firmer	firmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tug	tug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rosemary	rosemary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the firmer | the plant |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **beat** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
| 4 | **give** | past | girl | one great tug |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tug=Theme |
| 5 | **remain** | past | the rosemary |  |  | girl's hands |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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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