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title: And that was because he had boasted so terribly about things which w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And that was because he had boasted so terribly about things which were not true. Who acts: things. 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 60

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And that was because he had boasted so terribly about things which were not true.

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** that

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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 (things), 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:pg5615:6:60
# text = And that was because he had boasted so terribly about things which were not true.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	boasted	boast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  | about things; boast, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | things |  |  |  |  | true *property* | 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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