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title: Mannikin was struck with pity for their miserable plight, and set to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mannikin was struck with pity for their miserable plight, and set to work with might and main to release them. Who acts: branches. 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 67

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Mannikin was struck with pity for their miserable plight, and set to work with might and main to release them.

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**Who acts:** branches · **What happens:** strike, set, work, release, plight · **To what, where:** Mannikin, branches

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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 (branches), 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:pg7277:14:67
# text = Mannikin was struck with pity for their miserable plight, and set to work with might and main to release them.
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past · passive |  | Mannikin |  |  |  | with pity; for branches's miserable plight | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pity=Instrument |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **release** | to-infinitive |  | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source |
| 5 | **plight** |  | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  |  | nom plight «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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