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title: But it was too late now to do anything but wish vainly that he had s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was too late now to do anything but wish vainly that he had stayed on shore, and to grow heartily weary of the boat and the sea and everything connected with it. Who acts: wind, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with i
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 20

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But it was too late now to do anything but wish vainly that he had stayed on shore, and to grow heartily weary of the boat and the sea and everything connected with it.

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**Who acts:** wind, Prince · **What happens:** be, wish, stay, grow, connect · **To what, where:** shore

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (wind, Prince), 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:pg7277:37:20
# text = But it was too late now to do anything but wish vainly that he had stayed on shore, and to grow heartily weary of the boat and the sea and everything connected with it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	conj	_	_
33	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wind |  |  |  | now | do *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | present | wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vainly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **stay** | past · perfect | Prince |  |  | shore |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
| 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **connect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with wind | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient |

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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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