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title: ‘Nothing to prevent me!’ repeated he, ‘when my utmost efforts have f… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Nothing to prevent me!’ repeated he, ‘when my utmost efforts have failed to discover the lovely original. Who acts: Nothing, utmost efforts. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 75

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‘Nothing to prevent me!’ repeated he, ‘when my utmost efforts have failed to discover the lovely original.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, utmost efforts · **What happens:** prevent, repeat, fail, not discover · **To what, where:** me, Featherhead, lovely original

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, utmost efforts), 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:pg7277:12:75
# text = ‘Nothing to prevent me!’ repeated he, ‘when my utmost efforts have failed to discover the lovely original.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | Nothing *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme |
| 2 | **repeat** | past | Nothing | Featherhead |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fail** | present · perfect | my utmost efforts |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **discover** | to-infinitive | my utmost efforts *not said here* | the lovely original |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent original=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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