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title: Petru made no reply, only wondered how, exhausted as he was, he shou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Petru made no reply, only wondered how, exhausted as he was, he should ever be able to carry on the fight. Who acts: Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 69

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Petru made no reply, only wondered how, exhausted as he was, he should ever be able to carry on the fight.

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**Who acts:** Petru · **What happens:** make, wonder, exhaust, be, carry · **To what, where:** reply, fight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Petru), 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:pg641:20:69
# text = Petru made no reply, only wondered how, exhausted as he was, he should ever be able to carry on the fight.
1	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Petru | no reply |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Petru *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exhaust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **be** | past | Petru |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | should | Petru |  |  |  | ever | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* |  |  | the fight |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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