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title: After this they had no doubt at all of its being their true grandmot… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After this they had no doubt at all of its being their true grandmother, and went off to their hunting, leaving our friend at home in the hut. Who acts: nyamatsanes. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 8

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After this they had no doubt at all of its being their true grandmother, and went off to their hunting, leaving our friend at home in the hut.

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**Who acts:** nyamatsanes · **What happens:** have, be, go off, leave, hunt · **To what, where:** doubt, all, friend, home

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsanes), 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:pg5615:35:8
# text = After this they had no doubt at all of its being their true grandmother, and went off to their hunting, leaving our friend at home in the hut.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	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 | **have** | past | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* | no doubt |  | all | after this |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of doubt's true grandmother | tree rules |
| 3 | **go off** | past | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to nyamatsanes's hunting | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* *not said here* | our friend |  | home |  | in the hut | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme at home=Location |
| 5 | **hunt** |  | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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