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title: So uneventful was their life that it almost seemed as if it would go… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So uneventful was their life that it almost seemed as if it would go on in this way always, without let or hindrance. Who acts: it, air. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 77

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So uneventful was their life that it almost seemed as if it would go on in this way always, without let or hindrance.

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**Who acts:** it, air · **What happens:** be, seem, go on · **To what, where:** uneventful life, way

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, air), 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:pg640:33:77
# text = So uneventful was their life that it almost seemed as if it would go on in this way always, without let or hindrance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	uneventful	uneventful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	dislocated	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	let	let	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hindrance	hindrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | stones's uneventful life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | without let or hindrance; almost *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **go on** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | air |  |  | this way |  | always *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |

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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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