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title: So Alfin went sadly home, but would not tell anything about his adve… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Alfin went sadly home, but would not tell anything about his adventures, only saying grimly, ‘Now it is Ciccu’s turn.’ Who acts: Alfin, adventure. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 131

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So Alfin went sadly home, but would not tell anything about his adventures, only saying grimly, ‘Now it is Ciccu’s turn.’

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**Who acts:** Alfin, adventure · **What happens:** go, not tell, say, be, adventure · **To what, where:** anything, turn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfin, adventure), 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:pg5615:37:131
# text = So Alfin went sadly home, but would not tell anything about his adventures, only saying grimly, ‘Now it is Ciccu’s turn.’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Alfin	Alfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	grimly	grimly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Alfin |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | would | Alfin *not said here* | anything |  |  |  | about Alfin's adventures | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient about adventure=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Alfin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | grimly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | adventure | Ciccu's turn |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **adventure** |  | Alfin |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «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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