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title: There was nothing for it but to go to the shops to buy fresh, and to… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was nothing for it but to go to the shops to buy fresh, and to begin all over again! Who acts: nothing. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 62

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There was nothing for it but to go to the shops to buy fresh, and to begin all over again!

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**Who acts:** nothing · **What happens:** be, go, buy, begin · **To what, where:** shops

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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 (nothing), 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:pg5615:25:62
# text = There was nothing for it but to go to the shops to buy fresh, and to begin all over again!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  | the shops |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | again | over *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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