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title: Not one of them thought it worth while to look for Esben, but he soo… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not one of them thought it worth while to look for Esben, but he soon came along of himself. Who acts: one, youngest. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 37

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Not one of them thought it worth while to look for Esben, but he soon came along of himself.

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**Who acts:** one, youngest · **What happens:** think, look, come along · **To what, where:** escape

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, youngest), 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:pg5615:29:37
# text = Not one of them thought it worth while to look for Esben, but he soon came along of himself.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	along	along	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | one of brothers | escape |  |  |  | worth *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | one of brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Esben | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for esben=Theme |
| 3 | **come along** | past | youngest *= young* |  |  |  |  | of youngest *= young*; along, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of himself=Initial\_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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