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title: There was nothing to be done with a man like this, and she made all… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was nothing to be done with a man like this, and she made all haste to fill the sacks with ducats, so as to get rid of Stan as soon as possible. Who acts: nothing, mother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 176

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There was nothing to be done with a man like this, and she made all haste to fill the sacks with ducats, so as to get rid of Stan as soon as possible.

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**Who acts:** nothing, mother · **What happens:** be, do, make, fill, get · **To what, where:** haste, sacks

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, mother), 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:pg641:13:176
# text = There was nothing to be done with a man like this, and she made all haste to fill the sacks with ducats, so as to get rid of Stan as soon as possible.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
29	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a man like this | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **make** | past | mother | all haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product |
| 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | the sacks |  |  |  | with ducats | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with ducat=Instrument |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rid, soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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