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title: They went accordingly, although very unwillingly, for they suspected… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They went accordingly, although very unwillingly, for they suspected that Sir Red had fallen on some new plan to bring them into trouble. Who acts: brothers, Red. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 108

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They went accordingly, although very unwillingly, for they suspected that Sir Red had fallen on some new plan to bring them into trouble.

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**Who acts:** brothers, Red · **What happens:** go, suspect, fall, bring · **To what, where:** new plan, brothers, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Red), 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:pg5615:28:108
# text = They went accordingly, although very unwillingly, for they suspected that Sir Red had fallen on some new plan to bring them into trouble.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | accordingly, unwillingly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **suspect** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | Red  Sir |  |  | some new plan |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on plan=Location |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Red  Sir *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  | trouble |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into trouble=Destination |

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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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