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title: They had a great deal of trouble and worry with him too; but he thro… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had a great deal of trouble and worry with him too; but he throve and grew very quickly, and before he was a year old he could run about and talk. Who acts: parents, boy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 21

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They had a great deal of trouble and worry with him too; but he throve and grew very quickly, and before he was a year old he could run about and talk.

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**Who acts:** parents, boy · **What happens:** have, throve, grow, be, run about, talk · **To what, where:** great deal, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, boy), 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:pg640:36:21
# text = They had a great deal of trouble and worry with him too; but he throve and grew very quickly, and before he was a year old he could run about and talk.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	throve	throve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | past | parents *= parent* | a great deal of trouble and worry with boy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 2 | **throve** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  | before a year |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run about** | could | boy |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **talk** | infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **deal** |  |  | trouble and worry with boy |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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