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title: Girouette, whose business it was to see after Souci, had forgotten h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Girouette, whose business it was to see after Souci, had forgotten his existence in the excitement of some new idea, and he would not have been alive long to trouble anybody if Aveline had not come to the rescue and whispered in his ear, ‘And the skein of thread?’ Who acts: prisoner, Girouette, Avel
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 81

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Girouette, whose business it was to see after Souci, had forgotten his existence in the excitement of some new idea, and he would not have been alive long to trouble anybody if Aveline had not come to the rescue and whispered in his ear, ‘And the skein of thread?’

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**Who acts:** prisoner, Girouette, Aveline · **What happens:** see, forget, not be, not come, whisper, exist · **To what, where:** existence, excitement, rescue, ear, new idea

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, Girouette, Aveline), 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:pg5615:30:81
# text = Girouette, whose business it was to see after Souci, had forgotten his existence in the excitement of some new idea, and he would not have been alive long to trouble anybody if Aveline had not come to the rescue and whispered in his ear, ‘And the skein of thread?’
1	Girouette	Girouette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Souci	Souci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
30	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	advcl	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	skein	skein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	parataxis	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | prisoner |  |  |  | after Souci |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | Girouette | Girouette's existence |  | the excitement of some new idea |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | would · perfect | Girouette |  |  |  |  | alive, long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Aveline |  |  | the rescue |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Girouette *not said here* |  |  | Girouette's ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 6 | **exist** |  | Girouette |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **excite** |  |  | some new idea |  |  |  |  | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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