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title: But no words of advice or warning could cure Browny of his bad habits. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But no words of advice or warning could cure Browny of his bad habits. Who acts: words. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 7

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But no words of advice or warning could cure Browny of his bad habits.

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** cure, word · **To what, where:** Browny, advice

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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:pg7277:13:7
# text = But no words of advice or warning could cure Browny of his bad habits.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	Browny	Browny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | could | no words of advice or warning | Browny of mud's bad habits |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer browny=Source |
| 2 | **word** |  |  | advice or warning |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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