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title: All our trouble and anguish came From our faithfulness spoiling our… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All our trouble and anguish came From our faithfulness spoiling our enemies’ game. Who acts: trouble, faithfulness, our. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 94

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All our trouble and anguish came From our faithfulness spoiling our enemies’ game.

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**Who acts:** trouble, faithfulness, our · **What happens:** anguish, come, spoil, trouble · **To what, where:** faithfulness, game

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, faithfulness, our), 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:pg7277:3:94
# text = All our trouble and anguish came From our faithfulness spoiling our enemies’ game.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	anguish	anguish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	From	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	spoiling	spoil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anguish** | present | our trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past | our trouble |  |  | our faithfulness |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from faithfulness=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **spoil** | gerund | our faithfulness *not said here* | our enemies's game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **trouble** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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