--- title: Girouette, who never stopped to think or to make inquiries, drew suc… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Girouette, who never stopped to think or to make inquiries, drew such a delightful picture of Minon-Minette that Grimace determined to spare no pains to bring about the marriage, and accordingly Fluet was presented at court. Who acts: Girouette, Grimace. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girouette, Grimace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:30:69 # text = Girouette, who never stopped to think or to make inquiries, drew such a delightful picture of Minon-Minette that Grimace determined to spare no pains to bring about the marriage, and accordingly Fluet was presented at court. 1 Girouette Girouette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 inquiries inquiry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 17 det:predet _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Minon Minon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Minette Minette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 Grimace Grimace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 pains pain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 accordingly accordingly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 Fluet Fluet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 presented present VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stop** | past | Girouette | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Girouette *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Girouette *not said here* | inquiries | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product | | 4 | **draw** | past | | such delightful picture of Minon and Minette | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | | 5 | **determine** | past | Grimace | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **spare** | to-infinitive | Grimace *not said here* | no pains | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset | | 7 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Grimace *not said here* | | | | | about the marriage | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **present** | past · passive | | Fluet | | court | | accordingly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/70/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/)