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title: This did for some time, as there were found a few reckless fellows,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This did for some time, as there were found a few reckless fellows, who wished to earn this good payment. Who acts: This, few reckless fellows. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 119

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This did for some time, as there were found a few reckless fellows, who wished to earn this good payment.

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**Who acts:** This, few reckless fellows · **What happens:** do, find, wish, earn · **To what, where:** few reckless fellows, good payment

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, few reckless fellows), 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:pg5615:6:119
# text = This did for some time, as there were found a few reckless fellows, who wished to earn this good payment.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	reckless	reckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 | This |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive | This *not said here* | a few reckless fellows |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: fellow=Topic |
| 3 | **wish** | past | a few reckless fellows |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **earn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a few reckless fellows *not said here* | this good payment |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payment=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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