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title: The wolf didn’t wait to have the offer repeated, but set to work, an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wolf didn’t wait to have the offer repeated, but set to work, and soon made an end of the poor beast. Who acts: wolf, offer. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 12

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The wolf didn’t wait to have the offer repeated, but set to work, and soon made an end of the poor beast.

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**Who acts:** wolf, offer · **What happens:** not wait, have, repeat, set, work, make · **To what, where:** offer, end

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, offer), 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:pg7277:52:12
# text = The wolf didn’t wait to have the offer repeated, but set to work, and soon made an end of the poor beast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | past · do-support | the wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* | the offer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repeat** | participle | the offer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | past | the wolf *not said here* | a end of the poor beast |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |

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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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