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title: They quite forgot to thank Esben for what he had done for them. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They quite forgot to thank Esben for what he had done for them. Who acts: brothers, man. 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 clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 31

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They quite forgot to thank Esben for what he had done for them.

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**Who acts:** brothers, man · **What happens:** forget, not thank, do · **To what, where:** Esben

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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, 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:pg5615:28:31
# text = They quite forgot to thank Esben for what he had done for them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  | Esben |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent esben=Theme for what=Attribute |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  | for brothers *= brother* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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