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title: For a little while he even forgot to notice how dirty he was getting… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a little while he even forgot to notice how dirty he was getting, but this did not last long, for his hair became matted with dirt and hung over his eyes, and his pilgrim’s dress was a mass of horrible rags and tatters. Who acts: Don, this, hair, dress. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by And
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 25

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For a little while he even forgot to notice how dirty he was getting, but this did not last long, for his hair became matted with dirt and hung over his eyes, and his pilgrim’s dress was a mass of horrible rags and tatters.

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**Who acts:** Don, this, hair, dress · **What happens:** forget, not notice, get, not last, become, mat · **To what, where:** eyes, mass

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, this, hair, dress), 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:pg5615:39:25
# text = For a little while he even forgot to notice how dirty he was getting, but this did not last long, for his hair became matted with dirt and hung over his eyes, and his pilgrim’s dress was a mass of horrible rags and tatters.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
27	matted	mat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	tatters	tatter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | Don |  |  |  |  | for a little | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | to-infinitive | Don *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get** | past · progressive | Don |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **last** | past · do-support | this |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **become** | past | Don's hair |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mat** | participle | Don's hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with dirt | tree rules |
| 7 | **hang** | past | Don's hair *not said here* |  |  | Don's eyes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location |
| 8 | **is a** | past | Don's pilgrim's dress | a mass |  |  |  | of horrible rags and tatters | tree rules |

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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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