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title: ‘But there are not enough left to take to the king,’ murmured Ciccu. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘But there are not enough left to take to the king,’ murmured Ciccu. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 6

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‘But there are not enough left to take to the king,’ murmured Ciccu.

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**What happens:** leave, take, murmur · **To what, where:** Ciccu

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:38:6
# text = ‘But there are not enough left to take to the king,’ murmured Ciccu.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the king *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past |  | Ciccu |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ciccu=Topic |

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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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