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title: And the rogue made such a fuss and moaning that he would have melted… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the rogue made such a fuss and moaning that he would have melted a heart of stone, and nothing would content him but that somebody should carry him back to land and let him fetch his liver again. Who acts: rogue, fuss, nothing, somebody. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 33

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And the rogue made such a fuss and moaning that he would have melted a heart of stone, and nothing would content him but that somebody should carry him back to land and let him fetch his liver again.

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**Who acts:** rogue, fuss, nothing, somebody · **What happens:** make, moan, melt, content, carry back, land · **To what, where:** fuss, heart, rogue, liver

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogue, fuss, nothing, somebody), 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:pg641:32:33
# text = And the rogue made such a fuss and moaning that he would have melted a heart of stone, and nothing would content him but that somebody should carry him back to land and let him fetch his liver again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rogue	rogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	content	content	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the rogue | such fuss |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product |
| 2 | **moan** | gerund | such fuss *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **melt** | would · perfect | rogue | a heart of stone |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result |
| 4 | **content** | would | nothing | rogue |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **carry back** | should | somebody | rogue |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **land** | to-infinitive | somebody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive | somebody *not said here* | rogue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **fetch** | infinitive | rogue *not said here* | way's liver |  |  | again |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Theme |

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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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