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title: My repugnance to his magic was so great that I would not condescend… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My repugnance to his magic was so great that I would not condescend to give any answer. Who acts: repugnance, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 62

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My repugnance to his magic was so great that I would not condescend to give any answer.

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**Who acts:** repugnance, I · **What happens:** be, not condescend, give · **To what, where:** answer

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (repugnance, I), 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:pg7277:45:62
# text = My repugnance to his magic was so great that I would not condescend to give any answer.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	repugnance	repugnance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	condescend	condescend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | My repugnance to door's magic |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **condescend** | would | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | any answer |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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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