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title: But Ludovine repeated, ‘Won’t you tell me?’ in such a tender voice h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ludovine repeated, ‘Won’t you tell me?’ in such a tender voice he did not know how to resist her. Who acts: Ludovine, you, soldier. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 230

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But Ludovine repeated, ‘Won’t you tell me?’ in such a tender voice he did not know how to resist her.

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**Who acts:** Ludovine, you, soldier · **What happens:** repeat, not tell, not know, resist · **To what, where:** me, tender voice, Ludovine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ludovine, you, soldier), 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:pg7277:22:230
# text = But Ludovine repeated, ‘Won’t you tell me?’ in such a tender voice he did not know how to resist her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Wo	wo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | Ludovine |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | me | such tender voice |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | soldier | such tender voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **resist** | to-infinitive |  | Ludovine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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