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title: ‘Very well, cinders be it,’ the old woman shouted after him, but Pau… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Very well, cinders be it,’ the old woman shouted after him, but Paul neither looked back nor answered her. 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 45

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‘Very well, cinders be it,’ the old woman shouted after him, but Paul neither looked back nor answered her.

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**Who acts:** cinders, Paul · **What happens:** be, shout, look back, answer · **To what, where:** insolent, woman

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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:pg641:24:45
# text = ‘Very well, cinders be it,’ the old woman shouted after him, but Paul neither looked back nor answered her.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | insolent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | cinders |  |  |  | after Paul |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look back** | past | Paul |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Paul *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |

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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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