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title: Ciccu did not much like it; however he went on his way, and with a t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ciccu did not much like it; however he went on his way, and with a trembling heart rang the castle bell. Who acts: 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 8

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Ciccu did not much like it; however he went on his way, and with a trembling heart rang the castle bell.

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**Who acts:** Ciccu · **What happens:** do, go, ring · **To what, where:** way, castle bell

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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: who acts (Ciccu), 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:pg5615:38:8
# text = Ciccu did not much like it; however he went on his way, and with a trembling heart rang the castle bell.
1	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ciccu |  |  |  |  | like stalk | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Ciccu |  |  | Ciccu's way |  | however *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 3 | **ring** | past | Ciccu *not said here* | the castle bell |  |  |  | with a trembling heart | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bell=Destination with heart=Theme |

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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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