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title: They were greatly annoyed at this, for there were only the three of… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were greatly annoyed at this, for there were only the three of them to share it, and none of them was willing to pay the extra penny. Who acts: Wives, three, none. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 35

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They were greatly annoyed at this, for there were only the three of them to share it, and none of them was willing to pay the extra penny.

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**Who acts:** Wives, three, none · **What happens:** be, share, pay · **To what, where:** this, pint, extra penny

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wives, three, none), 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:pg5615:32:35
# text = They were greatly annoyed at this, for there were only the three of them to share it, and none of them was willing to pay the extra penny.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Wives *= wife* |  |  | this |  | annoyed, greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | the three of Wives |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | the three of Wives *not said here* | pint |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | none |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | the extra penny |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Asset |

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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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