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title: He often thought of her and always with gratitude, but from the mome… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He often thought of her and always with gratitude, but from the moment of his setting out he had determined to seek her aid only on the greatest occasions. Who acts: Mannikin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 56

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He often thought of her and always with gratitude, but from the moment of his setting out he had determined to seek her aid only on the greatest occasions.

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**Who acts:** Mannikin · **What happens:** think, set out, determine, seek · **To what, where:** moment, aid, greatest occasions

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannikin), 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:pg7277:16:56
# text = He often thought of her and always with gratitude, but from the moment of his setting out he had determined to seek her aid only on the greatest occasions.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Mannikin |  |  |  |  | of advice; often *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set out** | gerund | Mannikin | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** | past · perfect | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Mannikin *not said here* | advice's aid |  | the greatest occasions |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent aid=Theme on occasion=Location |

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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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