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title: ‘Cinders,’ said Paul, who was quite as insolent as his brother, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Cinders,’ said Paul, who was quite as insolent as his brother, and quite as anxious to teach other people good manners. Who acts: Cinders, Paul. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 44

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‘Cinders,’ said Paul, who was quite as insolent as his brother, and quite as anxious to teach other people good manners.

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**Who acts:** Cinders, Paul · **What happens:** say, be, teach · **To what, where:** insolent, good manners, other people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinders, Paul), 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:pg641:24:44
# text = ‘Cinders,’ said Paul, who was quite as insolent as his brother, and quite as anxious to teach other people good manners.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	insolent	insolent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cinders |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Paul | insolent |  |  |  | as Paul's brother | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Cinders *not said here* | good manners | other people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient manners=Topic |

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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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