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title: And as for what Christian said he saw, he had been drinking more win… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for what Christian said he saw, he had been drinking more wine than was good for him. Who acts: Christian. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 7

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And as for what Christian said he saw, he had been drinking more wine than was good for him.

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**Who acts:** Christian · **What happens:** say, see, drink, be · **To what, where:** more wine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian), 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:pg5615:8:7
# text = And as for what Christian said he saw, he had been drinking more wine than was good for him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Christian |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | Christian |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **drink** | past · perfect · progressive | Christian | more wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Christian; good *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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