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title: See where I put in this mark when I abandoned the hopeless undertaki… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: See where I put in this mark when I abandoned the hopeless undertaking which I had but just begun!’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 18

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See where I put in this mark when I abandoned the hopeless undertaking which I had but just begun!’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** see, put, abandon, have, begin · **To what, where:** mark, hopeless undertaking

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg7277:14:18
# text = See where I put in this mark when I abandoned the hopeless undertaking which I had but just begun!’
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **put** | past | I |  |  | this mark |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mark=Destination |
| 3 | **abandon** | past | I | the hopeless undertaking |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme undertaking=Source |
| 4 | **have** | past | I | the hopeless undertaking |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **begin** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 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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