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title: But Uraschimataro paid no heed to these remarks, and as he was reall… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Uraschimataro paid no heed to these remarks, and as he was really very clever in managing a boat, the old people were very seldom anxious about him. Who acts: Uraschimataro, son, old people. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 55

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But Uraschimataro paid no heed to these remarks, and as he was really very clever in managing a boat, the old people were very seldom anxious about him.

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**Who acts:** Uraschimataro, son, old people · **What happens:** pay, be, manage · **To what, where:** heed, boat

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uraschimataro, son, old people), 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:pg5615:3:55
# text = But Uraschimataro paid no heed to these remarks, and as he was really very clever in managing a boat, the old people were very seldom anxious about him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	managing	manage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | Uraschimataro | no heed |  |  |  | to this remarks | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | son |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **manage** | gerund | son *not said here* | a boat |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the old people |  |  |  |  | about son; anxious, seldom *property* | tree rules |

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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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