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title: But Ferko pretended not to hear, and drove some more thousands befor… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ferko pretended not to hear, and drove some more thousands before him, so that everyone quaked with horror and fear. Who acts: Ferko, everyone. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 45

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But Ferko pretended not to hear, and drove some more thousands before him, so that everyone quaked with horror and fear.

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**Who acts:** Ferko, everyone · **What happens:** pretend, not hear, drive, quake · **To what, where:** more thousands

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, everyone), 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:pg640:15:45
# text = But Ferko pretended not to hear, and drove some more thousands before him, so that everyone quaked with horror and fear.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
19	quaked	quake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | Ferko |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | to-infinitive | Ferko *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **drive** | past | Ferko *not said here* | some more thousands |  |  | before Ferko |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme before he=Destination |
| 4 | **quake** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | with horror and fear | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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