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title: But vainly they practice their cruel arts, For nought can sever our… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But vainly they practice their cruel arts, For nought can sever our two fond hearts.’ Who acts: enemies, nought. 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 95

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But vainly they practice their cruel arts, For nought can sever our two fond hearts.’

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**Who acts:** enemies, nought · **What happens:** practice, sever · **To what, where:** cruel arts, two fond hearts

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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 (enemies, nought), 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:pg7277:3:95
# text = But vainly they practice their cruel arts, For nought can sever our two fond hearts.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	practice	practice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sever	sever	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practice** | present | enemies *= enemy* | enemies's cruel arts |  |  |  | vainly *property* | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme |
| 2 | **sever** | can | nought | our two fond hearts |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |

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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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